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French biathlon team begin two-week camp as new facility at National Training Centre opens

  • Biathlon

A new Nordic Pavilion at the National Training Centre in Premanon has officially been opened as the French biathlon team began a two-week training camp.

French biathlon side, such as the extensive rollerski tracks, the indoor ski-in and out electronic shooting

range, and the 30-point outdoor shooting range.The Nordic Pavilion facility can accomodate 24 athletes



Australia Commonwealth Games Association appoint three general managers ahead of Gold Coast 2018

  • Gold Coast 2018

The Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) has made three key general manager appointments as preparations for Gold Coast 2018 continue to gather pace.

Tim Mahon, the current high performance manager for Shooting Australia, has been chosen as the team

’Neill and Monasso are due to take up their roles on July 4.Mahon, a section manager of Australia’s shooting

October 3.It has been agreed Mahon will start later than his colleagues so he can oversee Australia’s shooting

The ACGA have reached an agreement with Shooting Australia which will see Mahon undertake project work

“Tim remains committed to our 2016 Rio Olympic Games campaign and is focused on ensuring that Shooting





Baku set to host final ISSF World Cup of the season

  • Shooting

Azerbaijan’s capital Baku is set to host the sixth and final stage of the 2016 International Shooting

year.With less than 50 days to go to the Rio 2016 Olympics, the event is the largest international shooting

present were Hafiz Jafarov and Emin Jafarov, the vice-president and secretary general of the Shooting

peak of the season will be reached in August, when the Olympic Games are held in Rio.The 15 Olympic Shooting



Kuwait certain to miss Rio 2016 after "human rights threatening" new sporting Statutes approved by National Assembly

  • OCA

The rights of all sporting officials and athletes in Kuwait to take independent opinions and actions have been curtailed today after controversial new Statutes were approved by the country's National Assembly, in which dissenters face three-year jail terms.

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

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


British men's hockey team manager to miss Rio 2016 due to role in Jean Charles de Menezes shooting

  • Hockey

Great Britain’s men’s hockey team manager Andy Halliday will not travel to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games due to his "peripheral role" in the incident which saw Brazilian national Jean Charles de Menezes killed in 2005.

firearms officer in the Metropolitan Police and was a member of the team involved in the De Menezes shooting

dying at the age of 27.Sensititives over Andy's Halliday's periphal role in Jean Charles de Menezes shooting


Tallent show the latest in a growing spectacle of retrospective medals justice

  • The Big Read

Australia’s Olympic TV network, 7Olympics, has just put out a short clip of footage from the London 2012 Olympics featuring home race walker Jared Tallent en route to his eventual golden glory in the 50km race walk - eventual in the sense that he had to wait until June 17, 2016, 1,405 days later, to claim the medal originally won by Sergey Kirdyapkin.

He reportedly had “two beers” to calm his nerves before the pistol shooting event.


Jail terms for sporting figures who defy Kuwait Government among controversial new Statute proposals

  • OCA

All officials who do not cooperate with wide-ranging new powers due to be handed to Kuwait’s Public Sports Authority (PSA) could face jail terms of between one and three years, insidethegames has been told.

member who is also President of both the OCA and ANOC.Sheikh Salman resigned as head of the Asian Shooting

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

ahead of Parliamentary elections in June 2017.Article Five of the new Statutes also stipulates that a shooting


United States edge Ecuador to reach semi-finals of Copa América Centenario

  • Football

Goals from Clint Dempsey and Gyasi Zardes guided the United States to the semi-finals of the Copa América Centenario as they narrowly beat Ecuador 2-1 in a controversial affair at Soldier Field in Chicago.

intriguing last-eight encounter got underway, a minute’s silence was held to remember the victims of the shooting


TOP sponsor Visa become supporting partner of Paralympics New Zealand ahead of Rio 2016

  • Paralympics

Financial giant Visa, a member of The Olympic Partner (TOP) sponsorship programme, have signed on as a supporting partner of Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) ahead of Rio 2016.

three athletes - Michael Johnson, Jason Eales and Greg Reid - were named as part of New Zealand’s shooting

Para-athletes to their team for Rio 2016 from sports such as athletics, cycling, swimming, sailing and now shooting