Members of the Canadian 4x7.5 kilometres team which won a surprise International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Championships bronze medal at this year's event in Oslo have travelled to Auckland in New Zealand to undergo an intense training camp ahead of the new season.

hours of training, including biathlon skiing work and combination training, featuring both skiing and shooting

Up to 10 countries may not be able to attend the Paralympic Games here regardless of whether grants are paid by organisers, it has been announced today amid wide-ranging changes to venues.

Deodoro Olympic Park has been "closed and dismantled", meaning that equestrian, football 7-a-side and shooting

Inspections are set to be carried-out tomorrow to assess how much damage has been caused by a fire which broke out on the Olympic mountain bike course at Deodoro here today.

tomorrow as they assessed the impact.But they now claim the fire was started in a forest behind the nearby shooting

Britain's Justin Rose won the first gold medal in golf for 112 years as a birdie on the 18th hole was enough to see off the challenge of Sweden's Henrik Stenson today.

Olympic golf's first hole-in-one in the opening round and started Sunday with a one-shot lead, before shooting

Italy's Niccolo Campriani won his second Olympic gold medal of Rio 2016 as he claimed victory in the men's 50 metre rifle 3 positions final.

final shot to successfully defend the title he won at London 2012.Campriani won his third gold medal in shooting

Italy's Gabriele Rossetti secured the men's skeet gold medal after opponent Marcus Svensson of Sweden missed the last of his 16 targets as Kuwait's Abdullah Al-Rashidi became only the fourth competitor representing the Independent Olympic Athletes (IOA) to win a medal at the Games today.

podium with a score of 34 hits to claim his country's third title on the indoor range at the Olympic Shooting

coaches the French team and won skeet bronze at Barcelona 1992, saw him seal Italy's third crown in the shooting

men's double trap event earlier this week.All four Olympic medals claimed by IOA members have come in shooting

American Para-archer Kevin Polish insists he is not celebrating qualifying for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games despite a difficult path to booking his place at the event, which included recovering from cancer.

It just hit me, ‘Man, I need to start shooting my bow again," Polish said.He took part in the National

An incident involving an Egyptian judoka refusing to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent has been played down by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who claim "these things happen" in the heat of the moment.

rules have rarely been enforced, however, with the only exception coming last December when the Asian Shooting

City were stripped of their Olympic qualification status.This was because the designated International Shooting

Diana Bacosi emerged victorious from an all-Italian gold medal match against Beijing 2008 champion Chiara Caineiro to secure the Olympic women's skeet title at Rio 2016 today.

to ensure she took home gold, sparking emotional scenes among the Italian contingent at the Olympic Shooting

second in the semi-final as she again hit 15 out of the 16 targets, while Caineiro laid down a marker by shooting

Germany's Barbara Engleder became her nation's first gold medal-winning shooter since 2004 today as she won the women's 50 metres rifle three positions competition with an Olympic record score at Rio 2016.

Chinese duo Zhang Binbin and Du Li, who claimed the silver and bronze medal respectively at the Olympic Shooting

Shooting events at Rio 2016 continue tomorrow with the men's 50m prone and women's skeet competitions

Athletes (IOA) team to win a gold medal after claiming victory in the men's double trap at the Olympic Shooting

 All the medals were won by Yugoslavians and also came in shooting.

bronze medal match.Scott shot a perfect 30/30 score to secure third place as well as Britain's second shooting

Jin Jongoh became the first athlete to win three Olympic shooting gold medals in a row as he won the

men’s 50 metre pistol final at the Olympic Shooting Centre in Rio de Janeiro.

Anna Korakaki held her nerve to win the 25 metres pistol shooting title today and claim Greece's first

bronze medal here at Rio 2016 before producing a day of consistently strong performances at the Olympic Shooting

An unscheduled inspection has been paid to the headquarters of the Kuwait Football Association (KFA) by Government inspectors accompanied by police in the first indication that controversial new Sports Laws in the Gulf nation are being implemented.

Courts.The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) last month rejected a separate appeal launched by the Asian Shooting

Confederation, the Kuwait Shooting Federation and three Kuwaiti competitors defending their right to

Lausanne-based Association of National Olympic Committees.Sheikh Salman resigned as head of the Asian Shooting

Khasan Khalmurzaev claimed Russia’s second Olympic judo gold medal and third overall of the Rio 2016 after beating the United States’ Travis Stevens in the men’s under 81 kilograms at the Carioca Arena 2. 

first-ever Olympic judo medal and only their second medal in any sport following a men’s double trap shooting