With exactly six months to go before Tokyo 2020 begins, a new forecast suggests hosts Japan may be on course to hit their 30 gold-medal target.

sports such as sport climbing, karate and basketball 3x3, to new events in traditional sports such as shooting

Tuesday (January 21) marked the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death at the age of just 46. This gives rise to an irresistible, though I suspect not especially original, urge to re-examine the great writer's views on sport.

analysis of the rights and wrongs of grilling hot-dogs on the Olympic flame.)The famous "war minus the shooting

disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting

The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) is hoping to send a team of around 50 athletes to this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.

they won at Rio 2016.Fijian athletes are also attempting to also qualify in athletics, archery, judo, shooting

The French team battled heavy snow to take victory in the men’s relay at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in Ruhpolding, Germany.

I knew I could not fail in the shooting, I had some mistakes, but it not affect the lead."

Frenchman Martin Fourcade registered a remarkable 80th International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup victory in the men's 10 kilometres sprint in Ruhpolding, Germany.

expected on the skis, but it's not only about skiing - it's also about being accurate and fast in the shooting

unbeaten this year.However, it was the last loop of skiing that proved crucial, with all of the top three shooting

Marco Barale anchored Italy to victory in the mixed relay, as biathlon competition at Lausanne 2020 concluded in dramatic fashion at Les Tuffes Nordic Centre.

Domichek endured a disastrous shooting section of the relay and was forced to ski the penalty loop, ending

appreciates the "open-mindedness" of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) for considering holding shooting

table.The CGF and Birmingham 2022 will consider the proposal, which is also backed by the International Shooting

They came out in style in the mountains just across the border to welcome the Youth Olympic Games to France.

enthusiastic crowd waved flags and roared their approval every time the biathletes hit the target in the shooting

A total of 311 archers are involved in qualification and early eliminations in the Sydney Indoor Archery Festival, the fourth leg of the 2000 Indoor Archery World Series - including reigning champion Sim Yeji.

Yeji, of South Korea, will be shooting as an individual for Hyundai Mobis at the Whitlam Sports Centre.Other

It was double biathlon gold for Russia at Les Tuffes Nordic Centre, in the first Youth Olympic Games events to be staged on French soil.

It was after the last shooting phase that my coach let me know I was in with a chance of a medal," Domichek

I was in a good shape in both the shooting and running pretty fast, I had one of the best skis ever,

I focused on the shooting range and really did well."

Five-time Olympic champion Martin Fourcade took advantage of International Biathlon Union World Cup leader Johannes Thingnes Bø's absence, winning the men's 10 kilometres sprint in German town Oberhof.

The 31-year-old led a French one-two finish ahead of Émilien Jacquelin, shooting clean for the first

Birmingham 2022 are expecting a busy year, with major construction projects, the finalisation of venues and development of their cultural programme.

Birmingham 2022 will consider a proposal from the Indian Olympic Association to host Commonwealth Games shooting

events four months before the start of Birmingham 2022.The proposal has been backed by the International Shooting

India has submitted a formal proposal to host Commonwealth Games shooting and archery medal events four

Insidethegames exclusively revealed last month that staging a shooting competition in the country

event.India had threatened to boycott the Games in the English city in protest at the exclusion of shooting

Board at its next meeting in London on February 20 and 21.If approved, it could see medals won at the shooting

Shooting, while not a compulsory Commonwealth Games sport, has been part of every event since Kingston

1966, with the exception of Edinburgh 1970.India has traditionally been strong in shooting, winning

A few years back I was in Romania to cover Arsenal’s Champions League match against Steaua Bucharest, and, finding myself with a few spare moments - this was before online journalism had fully gripped its denizens - I visited the Palace of the Parliament grandiloquently established by the former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was by then deposed, disgraced and dead.

offence".But perhaps the most surreal mistake in this genre occurred at the 2012 Kuwait International Shooting

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Olympic Patrol project finished for the year at a school in Moscow.

to try out sports on the Olympic programme such as athletics, basketball, curling, fencing, golf and shooting