of Austria took the silver medal and Jaroslav Soukup of the Czech Republic the bronze.Bjoerndalen's shooting

By Nick Butler at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in SochiFebruary 7 – In front of a pulsated and captivated crowd, the Olympic Games were declared open here this evening in an Opening Ceremony illustrating the best of both sport and Russia.

with the Torch in their hands.In the shadow of the huge cauldron, they they then lit it, with flames shooting

Olympic Stadium with the Torch in their hands.In the shadow of the huge cauldron, they light it, flames shooting

By Emily GoddardFebruary 5 - European Sports Federations will receive a share from a €2.5 million (£2.1 million/$3.4 million) funding pot for their participation in the inaugural European Games taking place in Baku in 2015, European Olympic Committees (EOC) President Patrick Hickey has revealed.

use Baku 2015 as a qualifying platform for the Rio 2016 ©Getty ImagesSo far seven sports - cycling, shooting

and one silver, Italian Nedo Nadi's five fencing golds and 72-year-old Swede Oscar Swahn's gold in shooting

By Gary AndersonJanuary 30 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) will mark its 25-year anniversary with a major gathering of its membership at the Scandic Hotel, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, from October 3 to 5.

including alpine skiing, biathlon, athletics, cross-country skiing, ice sledge hockey, powerlifting, shooting

By Duncan MackayJanuary 28 - Brazil's Government today revealed that it had budgeted 5.6 billion reals (£1.4 billion/$2.3 billion/€1. 7 billion) on projects for Rio 2016 but admit that the figure is set to raise significantly.

scheduled to host seven Olympic sports, including equestrian, mountain biking and BMX, modern pentathlon, shooting

By Zjan ShirinianJanuary 28 - The 500-day countdown to the start of the inaugural European Games in Baku has begun, with organisers promising they are "on target to host a spectacular festival of sport".

programme will use the Games as a qualifying platform for the Rio 2016 Olympics.They are: cycling, shooting

By Gary AndersonJanuary 24 - US Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has announced the 2014 Warrior Games are set to take place at the US Olympic Training Centre and US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs from September 28 to October 4.

Getty Images Over the six days of competition athletes will participate in archery, cycling, shooting

By Gary AndersonJanuary 23 - A qualification guide for 18 of the 22 sports on the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games programme was published today. 

Rio and it is one of eleven sports along with archery, athletics, cycling, equestrian, powerlifting, shooting

By Nick ButlerJanuary 21 - With Sochi 2014 less than three weeks away, Russia's appalling doping record has been further marked by a dozen athletes from seven sports failing tests in addition to the case involving swimming world record holder Yulia Efimova.

weightlifting and cycling as well as one in figure-skating, the latest failures involve three athletes from shooting

By Emily GoddardJanuary 16 - Russian Olympic medallists Sergey Pyzhyanov and Larisa Kurkina and cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev lead the celebrations today to mark day 100 of the Sochi 2014 Torch Relay as it arrived in the Bryansk region.

and Belarusian themes as dancers performed the national dances of the three Slavic nations.Olympic shooting

By Paul OsborneJanuary 11 - Russian athletes upped the ante in Finland today as their biathletes claimed all six gold medals on offer at the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuokatti.

It was pretty hard for shooting, because the fingers get cold easily, but in general, shape was good.

visually impaired race with six kilometre world champion Mikhalina Lysova, guided by Alexey Ivanov shooting

OsborneJanuary 10 - Germany's Henri Junghaenel and Italy's Jessica Rossi have won the International Shooting

Championship in Lima, Peru.The two Shooters of the Years will be officially awarded during the 2014 ISSF Shooting

to a Parliamentary Regulation temporarily allowing the use of lead pellets during the shooting

All shooting events at the Games this summer are to be held at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre, 

may harm local wildlife, lead pellets are banned at the facility, which hosted full bore rifle shooting

but is primarily used as a Ministry of Defence (MoD) Training Centre.But, with the International Shooting

 "All Commonwealth Games shotgun events are conducted according to International Shooting Sport

venueAugust 2013: Satellite Village set-up for shooting competition at Glasgow 2014