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The 2024 Olympic Games - A tale of two cities and a possible hat-trick

  • The Big Read

US President Elect Donald Trump has called International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to "express his strong support" for Los Angeles 2024. 

Some of the shooting events even featured live pigeons, though doubt remains to this day as to whether


ANOC President Sheikh Ahmad cleared to stand for FIFA Council re-election after AFC pass change to voting process

  • Football

Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah will be able to stand for re-election as a member of FIFA’s ruling Council after the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) confirmed any nation within the organisation can nominate a candidate.

the heart of the dispute and blames the Olympic powerbroker for his defeat in the 2014 International Shooting



Defending IBU World Cup champion Fourcade wins first men's individual event of new season

  • Biathlon

Dominant Frenchman Martin Fourcade picked up from where he left off last season as he won the men's individual 20 kilometres race to get the defence of his International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup crown off to a winning start in Östersund in Sweden today.

The double Olympic champion took full advantage of a costly error on the final shooting stage from Johannes


Sports governed by International Paralympic Committee to undergo name change as part of rebrand

  • Paralympics

A total of 10 sports which are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) will undergo name and competition changes as part of an extensive rebrand, it was announced today.

sledge hockey is one of the three sports which has undergone the most noticeable rebrand, along with shooting

being named shooting Para sport.The change to Para ice hockey comes as a result of requests made by

" due to it having a different meaning in different languages.The IPC have made the alteration with shooting

Para AthleticsPara athleticsIPC PowerliftingWorld Para PowerliftingPara powerliftingIPC ShootingWorld Shooting


Former ISSF World Cup Final organiser criticises plans to axe men's 50m pistol at Tokyo 2020

  • Shooting

Former International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Final organiser Francesco Repich has

We are talking from the event that is symbol of pistol shooting and is the most difficult event in shooting

Don’t forget that 50m pistol shooting has also been in the Summer Olympic Games from 1896."

If ISSF members want to have easy competitions then they have to introduce laser shooting like modern

pentathlon where shooting is ridiculous."

Shooting is not easy because this is our sport, you can’t change."


Siekel elected President of Slovak Olympic Committee

  • EOC

Anton Siekel has been elected to replace František Chmelár as President of the Slovak Olympic Committee (SOC) at the organisation’s General Assembly in Bratislava.

capital was attended by International Olympic Committee member Danka Bartekova, who won a bronze medal in shooting


Three more sporting bodies dissolved by Kuwait Government as Parliamentary elections begin

  • OCA

Internationally recognised National Federations for equestrian, gymnastics and squash have become the latest to be dissolved by the Kuwait Sports Ministry as Parliamentary elections begin across the country.

Al-Sabah, is seen as being at the heart of the dispute.Sheikh Salman resigned as head of the Asian Shooting

standing unsuccessfully against Mexico's Olegario Vazquez Raña to become head of the International Shooting





Olympic champion helps ZOC host Athlete Career Programme

  • ANOCA

The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) hosted a session of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athlete Career Programme.

medallist Lawrence Ndlovu.Athletes taking part represented sports including athletics, rowing, swimming, shooting


Exclusive: FIFA secretary general threatens to seek damages against "illegal" Kuwait Football Association

  • Football

Football's world governing body FIFA has joined the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in threatening to seek damages against Kuwait authorities as a sporting and Governmental dispute in the country continues to intensify. 

Al-Sabah, is thought to be at the centre of the conflict.Sheikh Salman resigned as head of the Asian Shooting

standing unsuccessfully against Mexico's Olegario Vazquez Raña to become head of the International Shooting



Rival Kuwait Olympic Committee President claims to be "exerting efforts" to have IOC ban lifted

  • OCA

Sheikh Fahad Jaber Al-Sabah, head of a "parallel" Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC), claims to be redoubling his effort to have the country reintegrated into international sport.

Affairs at the centre of the conflict with the sports world.Sheikh Salman resigned as head of the Asian Shooting

standing unsuccessfully against Mexico's Olegario Vazquez Raña to become head of the International Shooting