By TERRY JONES -- Edmonton Sun
 SYDNEY -- Susan Nattrass sat with the kids, the other Olympians at the Canadian team reception here last night and looked a little out of place.

 Hey, she was born in 1950.

 "I don't remember. Did we have one of these things in 1976?'' the shooter asked the scribe. That was her first Olympics. It was also mine.

 She's Dr. Susan Nattrass now. These are the fourth Olympic Games for the six-time world champion, who'd be one of the great comeback stories of the Olympics if she'd actually ever really gone away. She's been on Canada's national shooting team for 32 years. She's the person most responsible for women's trapshooting being in the Olympics on several different levels.

 Susan Nattrass made Olympic history at the Montreal Olympics when she became the first female to break the gender barrier. She was Annie Oakley all over again at those Olympics as she shot with the men.

 She was a sight to behold.

 We talked about it earlier this year when the story came out about her making the Olympic team at age 49.

 Nattrass competed in shorts and showed off her legs and left nobody in doubt that a woman had busted into the boys' club.

 "I was playing to the crowd. I was playing to the cameras,'' she said, going over the territory again as a couple of young Olympians listened while she was being interviewed at the Canadian reception.

 "Heck, I was playing to the men. I was the first and only female. I was making the most of the moment.''

 She's making the most of this one, too. Surely it's her last. Certainly she's taking everything in and she says it's quite an enjoyable experience with older eyes.

 "It's fun to see the enthusiasm and excitement in everybody's eyes,'' she says of the young guns.

 "And to be out there shooting in the Olympics again for me ... it's exciting for me.

 "Unfortunately for a few days there, I wasn't shooting well. But now I think I've got it going.''

 Nattrass has been enjoying associating with her Olympic opposition and accepting the thank-yous from the women who know they wouldn't be here without her.

 "Actually, they've stopped saying '`thank you'' and started to get that look you get when the competition gets closer. And that's good.''

 Nattrass was planning on coming to these Olympics to watch her baby, not to give birth to one more Olympic moment.

 "I thought these Olympics would be my legacy,'' she said. "I didn't expect to compete.

 "I did the protesting. I did the petitioning. I met with Juan Antonio Samaranch. I got Women's Sport International involved. I was going to be retiring. I thought I'd be going to Sydney to see my legacy. I didn't expect to get in.''

 The battle isn't over.

 "We've come a long way,'' she said. "But the battle isn't over. I mean, we're in the Olympics as a separate sport. But look at our event compared to the men's event. At these Olympics in our event there are only 12 women's spots compared to about 40 for the men.''

 She'll fight those battles later. Right now she's going to try to beat those 11 other women and write an even better story.