By Mike RowbottomMarch 29 - British Shooting's Olympic hopeful Peter Wilson (pictured) has won the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Arizona – setting a world record in the process.

great support from the team around me and through the lottery funded World Class Programme at British Shooting

last year's World Cup in Chile.Wilson then went on to shoot the perfect round in the medal match – shooting

accidentally used a spoof version of their national anthem from the movie "Borat", during the Arab Shooting

By Andrew WarshawMarch 26 - Mark Pieth (pictured), the Swiss trouble-shooting professor brought in to

By Andrew Warshaw in IstanbulMarch 22 - UEFA President Michel Platini (pictured) promised today to vote for Turkey if the country goes ahead with a bid for the 2020 European Championships – but not if Istanbul pursues its drive to stage the Olympics and Paralympics in the same year.

Madrid, Tokyo and Baku also in the running.Embarrassed Turkish Olympic officials went into trouble-shooting

By Duncan MackayMarch 20 - More than 100,000 people have signed a petition in only five days backing Baku's bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, officials in Azerbaijan have claimed.

Farid Mansurov, the 66kg 2004 Olympic wrestling champion, and Zemfira Meftaheddinova, the Sydney 2000 shooting

The crackling sound of gunfire as you arrive at the National Shooting Centre in Bisley suggests you might

But now another shooting controversy has been triggered off.Britain's most celebrated marksman, Mick

In order for an athlete to be considered by British Shooting for nomination to the BOA for one of these

This score was set by British Shooting and agreed with the BOA.

British Shooting say: "This is nothing personal.

By Mike RowbottomMarch 18 - Elodie Clouvel (pictured) of France, who narrowly missed out on a 200 metres freestyle spot on the French team at the Beijing 2008 Olympics won her first World Cup event in her newly adopted sport of modern pentathlon in Rio de Janeiro.

through to the combined event despite an 11th place in the swim and a less than perfect ride.Outstanding shooting

By Mike RowbottomMarch 11 - All Ilia Frolov's (pictured) hard work on his weakest event, shooting, paid

In the pre-season I worked a lot on my shooting more than the other four disciplines as it let me down

By Mike Rowbottom March 10 - Germany's Olympic modern pentathlon champion Lena Schoneborn (pictured centre) has laid down an early marker for the retention of her title at London 2012 by winning the opening World Cup competition of the year in Charlotte, United States.

, with bronze going to Anastaysia Prokopenko (pictured above right) of Belarus, who broke the world shooting

By Tom Degun at Westminster in LondonFebruary 21 - John Penrose, Minister for Tourism and Heritage at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), has hit back at aggressive claims from Labour politician Barry Gardiner regarding Dow Chemical Company's controversial sponsorship of the Olympics by saying that he should ask London 2012 for answers.

Government to respond on behalf of a private organisation of which we have one board seat on, is I'm afraid, shooting

the 2011 Shooters of the Year by international press representatives and members of the International Shooting

I will be better inspired to push forward the development of my shooting."

values of the sport.The pair will be honoured officially by ISSF authorities during the London 2012 shooting

many aspects of this deeply unsavoury business  which included slapping, spitting and threats of shooting

By Duncan Mackay in Los AngelesFebruary 16 - Former tennis player Manisha Malhotra, from India, was honoured by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with the World Trophy for outstanding contribution to the development of women's participation in sport and sports administration during a special ceremony here tonight. 

support in a range of sports, including archery, wrestling, boxing, badminton, athletics, squash and shooting

By Duncan MackayFebruary 13 - Doha are confident that they have satisfactorily answered the doubts surrounding their bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics when they today become the first city to today hand in their Applicant File.

including Nasser Al-Attiyah, who has the unique distinction of having finished fourth in clay pigeon shooting

By Tom DegunFebruary 10 - Ireland have received a major boost for the London 2012 Paralympics after they secured three table tennis places and four equestrian spots for the games.

to reach our target of 40 athletes with further places expected in the sports of athletics, cycling, shooting