[7][8] Shortly after her second Games, Joo showed her most potential form in bouncing back to the range by clinching her first ISSF World Cup title in the air rifle final at Munich, Germany a year later, ending up in first place with a personal best of 497.6.

[1] On her third Olympic appearance in Atlanta 1996, Joo landed to her best finish of the meet at seventh position in the 10 m air rifle after she nailed 494.5 on the final match to discreetly elude Ukraine's Lessia Leskiv from last place by just three-tenths of a point (0.3).

[9] Joo also competed in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, but failed to reach the final, as she flubbed a few shots in the kneeling stage that saw her plunge down the leaderboard to a tie for twentieth with China's Chen Muhua at 576, just a deficit of five points from the cutoff.

She managed to get a qualifying score of 580 in the rifle three positions to join with fellow markswoman and debutant Beáta Krzyzewsky and secure an Olympic berth for Hungary after capping off her remarkable eight-year comeback with a fifth-place feat at the ISSF World Cup meet in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States less than a year earlier.

[1][11][12] In the 10 m air rifle, held on the first day of the competition, Joo fired a substantial 394 out of a possible 400 to force in a massive draw with five other shooters for fourteenth place, having been much closer to an Olympic final at a slim disadvantage of two points.