News Parents love to give their children advice, but 18-year-old Georgian sports shooter Tsotne Machavariani will have special reason to listen to his mother when he competes at this first Olympic Games His mother is Nino Salukvadze – a seven-time Olympian, Seoul 1988 gold medallist, and six-time world champion shooter Highly accomplished in her sport, she will be appearing at her eighth Summer Games at Rio 2016 and together, Salukvadze and Machavariani, will be the first mother and son to compete in the same Olympic Games “I am very happy and very proud that I will be competing alongside my son,” she told Reuters “We will do our best to perform well But, frankly speaking, I am a mother after all and will be a fan of my son in Rio ” Machavariani trains with his mum and is coached by his grandfather (Photo: Georgian National Olympic Committee) Shooting is an individual sport, but the family members train together under Vakhtang Salukvadze, who is not only their coach but Salukvadze's father and Machavariani's grandfather Salukvadze represented the Soviet Union at her first Olympic Games at the age of 19 She won gold in the 25m pistol event and bronze in the 10m air pistol She also won bronze at Beijing 2008 in the in the air pistol Salukvadze carries her country’s flag at the London 2012 opening ceremony (Photo: Getty Images/Lars Baron) Now 47 and competing for Georgia since 1996, Salukvadze said it was an honour to have her son join her in competition "I am very happy as the representative of the Georgian shooting federation but a million times happier as a mother that my son managed to do this," she told the Associated Press Compared to his mother, who will become one of only two people to compete at eight Olympic Games, Machavariani started his training in 2010 and entered competition three years later   Calming influence "My mother tells me that although she was almost my age when she won her Olympic gold, she represented the Soviet Union at that time and had better training conditions, more experience in tournaments She tells me that we do not have that luxury and she does not demand any results from me I think this her way to calm me down and minimise my nervousness during the tournament,” he said The pair travelled to Brazil in April for the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup, held in Rio de Janeiro Both competed in the 10m air pistol while Salukvadze entered the women’s 25m pistol and Machavariani the men’s 50m pistol Competing in Baku at the World Cup in June, Machavariani achieved his best result this season with a 15th-place finish in the 10m air pistol A mother and son have never competed at the Olympic Games together, and only two pairs of mother and daughter team-mates have appeared side by side: one pair in golf at Paris 1900 and another in archery at London 1908, according to Olympic historian Bill Mallon By contrast, fathers and their sons have competed together at 56 Olympic Games while fathers and their daughters have appeared at the same Olympic Games 12 times