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London 2012 Mascots Try for a Free Pin

  • Collecting and Heritage News

December 11 - Honav hosted a small pin promotion in John Lewis, Oxford Street yesterday. There was the chance to win a free Snowman or Snowflake pin on the roll of the dice. Wenlock and Mandeville were on site as part of a general London 2012 promotion and decided to stop by to try their luck.

A lady approached the pin displays and asked if there were any shooting pins.

sports pin, we found out that she was Chiara Caneiro from Italy who won gold in Beijing at Women's skeet shooting


Innsbruck 2012 on schedule, says chief executive

  • Innsbruck 2012

By David GoldDecember 10 - The Innsbruck 2012 chief executive, Peter Bayer, has claimed that they are two weeks ahead of schedule in the construction of the Athletes' Village for the Youth Winter Olympic Games, taking place in the Austrian city next month.

snowboard slope, and the ski-cross was ready last year where we finished the new ski jump and biathlon shooting


Dublin visit for Olympic Torch Relay officially confirmed

  • London 2012

By Duncan Mackay in LausanneDecember 8 - The London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay will visit Dublin during its 70 day journey, it was officially confirmed here today after permission was formally given for it to leave Britain.

British Auxiliary Division entered the ground during a Dublin-Tipperary Gaelic football match, shooting


Warrior Games to return to Colorado Springs in 2012

  • Latest (Paralympics)

By Tom DegunDecember 6 – The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have announced that the 2012 Warrior Games, presented by Deloitte, will return to Colorado Springs next year.

servicemen and women and veterans are expected to compete in the seven sports of archery, cycling, shooting


Britain secure fifth and final place for London 2012 shooting competition

  • Shooting News

them for the London 2012 Paralympic Games following a superb performance at the 2011 IPC Australia Shooting

place in Sydney last week, saw 118 athletes from 23 countries battle it out at the city's International Shooting

R5 10-metre air rifle prone SH2 to officially claim the London 2012 fifth quota place for Britain by shooting


Cooke's World Junior Championship quest goes swimmingly

  • Modern Pentathlon

By Mike RowbottomNovember 20 - Jamie Cooke (pictured) became world junior modern pentathlon champion today in Buenos Aires, taking Britain's medal tally to three following the individual bronze won by Freyja Prentice yesterday, when the women's team of Prentice, Kate French and Lydia Rosling also won gold.

starters were separated by just 30 seconds.He was one of a group of five pentathletes that left the shooting


England football officials urge under fire Blatter to resign

  • Football

By Andrew WarshawNovember 17 - British Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson led a string of scathing responses today to Sepp Blatter's widely publicised racism comments, while the head of England's players union called on the FIFA President to resign.

Despite a desperate trouble-shooting effort by Blatter to clarify comments he made to two television


Short list for October Athlete of the Month announced

  • Latest (Paralympics)

By David GoldNovember 2 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced a shortlist for the Athlete of the Month award for October, with the public having until next Monday (November 6) to submit their nominations.

process.Ponomarenko Valery of Russia is also in the running after claiming the P-3 event at the IPC Shooting


European cities invited to bid for three IPC championships

  • Latest (Paralympics)

By Tom DegunOctober 30 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is inviting cities from across Europe to bid for three of their major sporting events which are due to take place in 2013.

The first event is the IPC Shooting European Championships, the second is the IPC Powerlifting European

Championships and the third is the IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport European Championships.The shooting

and officials from a number of different countries and will be one of the largest international IPC shooting

cent.Suhl in Germany staged the last European Championships in 2007 while Zagreb in Croatia hosted the IPC Shooting


Basketball to be added to Commonwealth Games programme if Gold Coast win 2018

  • Gold Coast 2018

By Duncan MackayOctober 17 - Basketball will be included on the programme if the Gold Coast's bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games is successful, it was confirmed today.

another seven sports from which each host city can choose, including basketball, cycling, gymnastics, shooting


Summer Sports

  • Summer Sports

Handball Hockey Judo Modern Pentathlon Rowing Rugby Sevens Sailing Shooting


Summer Sports

  • Other

Modern Pentathlon Rowing Rugby Sevens Sailing Shooting


British Shooting appoint new chairman

  • Shooting

By Emily GoddardOctober 5 - The Board of British Shooting has today announced the appointment of John

two-year period, spanning the London Olympic and Paralympic Games - a crucial phase in the development of shooting

This is an important appointment for British Shooting, and a welcome move to strengthen leadership as

performance.British Shooting's acting chief executive Hamish McInnes said: "John will bring a new dynamic to British Shooting

His appointment heralds a new unity of purpose across the shooting disciplines at just the right time


More than one million Paralympic ticket applications made

  • London 2012 Paralympics

By Tom DegunSeptember 28 - London 2012 have revealed that 116,000 people have applied for 1.14 million tickets at the Paralympic Games in the first round of applications.

of archery, athletics, boccia, track cycling, equestrian dressage, football, goalball, judo, rowing, shooting


More than one million Paralympic ticket applications made

  • London 2012

By Tom DegunSeptember 28 - London 2012 have revealed that 116,000 people have applied for 1.14 million tickets at the Paralympic Games in the first round of applications.

of archery, athletics, boccia, track cycling, equestrian dressage, football, goalball, judo, rowing, shooting