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New sports face struggle to be added to Winter Olympic Games programme, IOC warn

  • Winter Olympics

It will be harder for new sports to be included on the Winter Olympic Games programme in the future because the ones currently there are continually innovating with new disciplines. 

free for ascents, but is fixed during descent.It has its origins in military patrol events - combining shooting






Several Russian sporting names included on US "oligarchs list"

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The former head of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee Vitaly Mutko, Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov and International Fencing Federation President Alisher Usmanov are among the names included on the United States Treasury Department's "oligarchs list".

whilst Russian Olympic Committee vice president Vladimir Lisin, who is also President of the European Shooting

Confederation and the Russia Shooting Union, is also among the 210 names.Russian officials have said


Singapore to send 59 athletes to Gold Coast 2018

  • Gold Coast 2018

Singapore has chosen 59 athletes to compete at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, between April 4 and 15.

expectation on what is a smaller team than in some Games past will rest with the team's table tennis and shooting

Table tennis and shooting have delivered in recent Commonwealth Games and we hope they will do well and

the sport each time.The country also won a gold medal in badminton in 2002, and eight gold medals in shooting

years.Singaporeans have won medals in seven sports at the Commonwealth Games - badminton, boxing, gymnastics, shooting


Sailing takes big step towards winning place back on Paralympic programme at Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

Cerebal palsy football, golf, powerchair football and sailing have all progressed to the next stage of the sports application process for Paris 2024, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board announced today following a meeting in Bonn.

sports.Surfing has failed with its bid for a place on the programme, along with poomsae taekwondo, trap shooting

, arm wrestling and 3x3 wheelchair basketball.Surfing, poomsae taekwondo and trap shooting did not


Multi-million dollar upgrade of bus station due to be completed in time for Gold Coast 2018

  • Gold Coast 2018

A AUD$3 million (£1.7 million/$2.5 million/€2 million) makeover of Brisbane's biggest bus station is due to be completed in time for this year's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, local officials have promised.

 Shooting and track cycling events are both due to be held in Brisbane, located nearly 80 kilometres

upgrading the ceiling, floor and wall tiles and wall panels.Brisbane is due to host track cycling and shooting


Commonwealth Games veterans Pitaluga and Clark in Falkland Islands team for Gold Coast 2018

  • Gold Coast 2018

The Falkland Islands will send a team of 26 competitors and officials to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - including the hugely experienced shooter Saul Pitaluga and badminton player Doug Clark.

"the hugely significant contribution" the two men had made "in representing the Falkland Islands in shooting

Saul Pitaluga, pictured competing in the trap shooting at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, has been selected

Falklands Islands competitors at the last Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, taking part in badminton, shooting





IPC to announce sports and disciplines through to next stage of Paris 2024 process

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

Sports and disciplines bidding for a place on the Paris 2024 programme will find out whether they have progressed to the next stage of the process when the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board holds its latest meeting this weekend.

programme - the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF), World Taekwondo and World Para Shooting

wheelchair basketball, World Taekwondo are hoping the poomsae discipline will be added and World Para Shooting

are bidding to get trap shooting included at the Games.3x3 wheelchair basketball is among the sports