There are few hard and fast Dos and Don’ts for sportswriters, but one of those you can rely on goes something like this: when tempted to wax philosophical about your specialist subject, the essays of George Orwell are generally best avoided.

Championships in France, not to reflect on Orwell’s definition of serious sport as “war minus the shooting

some seven decades ago.That particular phrase, however resonant, is not quite right - “War minus the shooting

brutally honest, it is actually insufferably pedantic of me to pick holes in that overused “war minus the shooting

whole point.As underlined so hideously in Orlando on Sunday, and every day in Syria, war minus the shooting

Canada’s Brooke Henderson claimed her first major title today, beating world number one Lydia Ko in a sudden-death play-off at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

I really didn't feel a ton of pressure or a ton of nerves, which I think is the key to shooting six-under

The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) have erected a billboard to thank sponsors who are supporting the country’s largest ever Olympic delegation.

send their biggest-ever team to an Olympic Games.Fiji have also qualified athletes in archery, judo, shooting

Beijing 2008 gold medallist Matt Skelhon headlines Great Britain’s 10-strong shooting team for the

He has since won mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 gold at the 2014 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting

sailing, judo, table tennis, powerlifting, wheelchair rugby, women’s wheelchair basketball, swimming and shooting

in 2013, has recorded an interview with British channel ITV - his first media interview since the shooting

South Africa's six-times Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius is due to face a sentencing hearing tomorrow (June 13) for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013.

technological detection methods, the former footballer was charged with killing Bill McLaughlin - by shooting

Cécillon, who was sentenced to 20 years in jail for the murder of his wife in 2004.Cécillon admitted shooting

Sweden’s Stefan Nilsson brought the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Shotgun World Cup

in San Marino to a close by earning gold in the men’s skeet event at the Tiro a Volo San Marino Shooting

Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit won her second International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Shotgun World Cup

Brazilian shooting team member Anna Paula Cotta has reportedly been shot in the head at an attempted

Cotta, who competed in the test event at the Olympic Shooting Centre in Deodoro and had been hoping to

reportedly shot close to Inhaúma Metro Station ©WikipediaShe also competed in last month's International Shooting

trap world champion Joshua Richmond defied the weather conditions to win gold at the International Shooting

The American shooter reached the gold medal contest at the Tiro a Volo San Marino Shooting Range after

Jiri Liptak fought off fierce competition to claim men’s trap gold at the International Shooting Sport

Spain's Alberto Fernandez to see the four men advance to a shoot-off at the Tiro a Volo San Marino Shooting

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has led the tributes to boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who has died at the age of 74.

since 1984 - three years after retiring from boxing.Ali had a strong affinity with the Olympics, shooting

Muhammad Ali had a strong affinity with the Olympics, shooting to fame by winning the light heavyweight

Australia’s Emma Cox earned the first International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup gold

closely fought women’s trap final with the United States’ Corey Cordell at the Tiro a Volo San Marino Shooting

“When I was shooting the final I felt a little bit nervous to begin with but I took it as it came, I

Kuwait is set to remain banned from Rio 2016 after "no improvement" in talks between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Government authorities.

of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs.Sheikh Salman resigned as head of the Asian Shooting

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

Women’s trap shooter Arianna Perilli will lead the host nation’s challenge when the International Shooting

bronze medals at London 2012.The pair are due to get competition underway at the Tiro a Volo San Marino Shooting