Paris 2024 Olympics - Chateauroux, France - July 31, 2024 Venezuelan shooter Leonel Martinez, who made his second Olympic appearance in Paris 40 years after his first in Los Angeles 1984, poses for a photo in Chateauroux REUTERS/Amlan Chakraborty
CHATEAUROUX, France (Reuters) - For each of the 40 years since Leonel Martinez competed in the 1984 Olympics, his memories of Los Angeles have got sweeter. His photographs faded and his exploits became an ever more distant memory as he founded a business and started a family back in his Venezuelan home of Ciudad Ojeda.
What the trap shooter had always assumed was a highlight of his past, however, now looms large in his future as four decades the 60-year-old is back in the Olympics -- and gunning for a place at the LA2028 Olympics.
