A few days later, he claimed a bronze in the free rifle shooting event.

By Tom DegunJanuary 29 - A number of India's London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic athletes have been honoured with the Padma Bhushan, the country's third highest civilian award, including female boxing star Mary Kom (pictured).

after the 27-year-old from Himachal Pradesh won an Olympic silver medal in 25-metre rapid-fire pistol shooting

By Emily GoddardJanuary 28 - The United States has maintained its position as the most powerful sporting nation since 2006 after confirming its dominance at the London 2012 Olympics Games, according to the Havas Sports & Entertainment Great Nations of Sport ranking.

few core sports.China won medals in 43 of the 154 disciplines (28 per cent), including 32 medals in shooting

By Tom DegunDepending on whether you believe rumours or not, which can always be a dangerous thing at even at the best of times, modern pentathlon is whispered to be one of the sports currently in real danger of being kicked off the Olympic Games sports programme.At this stage, they are one of a number of sports which appear to be in a similarly precarious position as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board prepares to meet to discuss the situation next month.That vital meeting in Lausanne on February 12 and 13 will see the Executive Board discuss which of...

The young athletes were the first to try laser shooting at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore

You saw that with the laser shooting system and you see that again with the Pentathlon Stadium, which

With the safe and environmentally friendly laser shooting, these events can now take place anywhere,

By Tom DegunJanuary 15 - After signing a record ten-year deal with Nike reported to be worth £150 million ($241 million/€180 million), Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy has appeared in an advert with his new sponsors alongside Tiger Woods.

and playful attitudes of the two best golfers in the world and McIlroy admitted he thoroughly enjoyed shooting

It shows the fun side of us and I had a good time shooting it."

By Duncan MackayJanuary 15 - Modern pentathlon, the only sport speficially designed for the Olympics, is proposing a revolutionary new concept for Rio 2016 that would see all five events staged in the same arena. 

pentathlon, after the highly successful implementation of environmentally and spectator friendly laser shooting

"The young athletes were the first to try laser shooting at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games, and they will

more televisual, what was once a five-day test of strength, skill and endurance via running,  shooting

successfully compressed into one, played out between dawn and dusk.In London, mod pen also pioneered laser shooting

order to further boost its popularity UIPM has a run-swim biathlon event and with the advent of laser shooting

CrookJanuary 3 - Niccolo Campriani of Italy and Kim Jang-Mi of South Korea have been named the International Shooting

"It's great news at the end of my best shooting season."

inevitably, is compromised, impinged upon, by outside forces.The Mexico 1968 Olympics were distorted by the shooting

By Philip BarkerThe man who changed the face of world sport forever was born 150 years ago on New Year's day.His name was Pierre de Coubertin  and he was the driving force behind the revival of the Olympic Games. Last summer, London 2012 paid their own tribute by asking his great grand nephew Antoine de Navacelle to carry the Olympic Torch, at the very spot where the 1908 Olympic marathon had finished."It is a fantastic opportunity that I have been given to carry the torch on his behalf " said De Navacelle. "London and Paris are very much concerned with the...

He himself devised a new competition, the modern pentathlon,  riding,fencing, shooting, swimming

By Mike RowbottomDecember 13 - The President of the international modern pentathlon federation, the UIPM, has said that he hopes the mixed relay event - which will be introduced to the event calendar next year in the Mixed Relay World Cup series - will be a part of the programme at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

first.The women from the pairs start first and complete two rounds of the combined event which involves two shooting

By Duncan MackayDecember 10 - The Warrior Games, an competition designed to support the recovery of wounded, ill and injured service men and women, will take place in Colorado Springs between May 11 and 17 next year, it was announced today by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and Deloitte.

Teams will compete in seven sports including archery, cycling, shooting, sitting-volleyball, swimming

By Tom Degun December 10 - Karate's bid for a place on the programme at the 2020 Olympic Games has been given a major boost after the sport signed a Letter of Intention (LOI) with the European Olympic Committees (EOC) to appear at the inaugural European Games in Baku in 2015.

every four years.They are archery, badminton, boxing, canoeing, fencing, handball, judo, rugby sevens, shooting

By Mike RowbottomJessica Ennis, Bradley Wiggins, Alistair Brownlee, Mo Farah. How good would it be for England if all four of those Olympic champions were able to turn up at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, now less than 600 days away? (All these competition countdowns...it's getting like Christmas shopping days...)Answer, of course, very good. And all the signs are that this dream-list could become reality once Scotland welcomes back the version of Games it last hosted in Edinburgh in 1986.England's experience at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games – despite the dire prognostications about dengue fever and dirty rooms – turned...

hosted a PR and Communications Summit which attracted representatives from badminton to boxing and shooting

By Duncan Mackay at the CONI Headquaters in Rome December 8 - Baku was today chosen to host the inaugural European Games in 2015, the end of a long campaign to get the event added to the international calendar. 

place in June.They are archery, badminton, boxing, canoeing, fencing, handball, judo, rugby sevens, shooting