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British shooters on target at Stoke Mandeville World Cup

  • Latest (Paralympics)

October 1 - Britain dominated the opening day of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting

The first event of the day was a falling target competition, similar to the shooting discipline

Skelhon said: "It’s a great feeling to win the first medal at a disability shooting event


Security tightens ahead of Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony

  • New Delhi 2010

  By Tom Degun in New Delhi September 30 – Security has tightened substantially ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony on Sunday (October 3).

champion Phillips Idowu and Australian discus world champion Dani Samuels - pulling out following a recent shooting



Brown happy to enjoy the experience in New Delhi

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September 28 - Danielle Brown claims that she feels no pressure at the prospect of becoming the first disability competitor to represent England at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi next month.

"This year I didn’t think my shooting would go well.


If you don't like Village move, advises India's greatest athlete

  • New Delhi 2010

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year September 26 - Milkha Singh, India's best-known athlete, has claimed that officials should stop being dictated to by foreign competitors over conditions in the Athletes Village that has been built for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

accommodation to determine whether conditions were suitable for the 48 athletes from the hockey, lawn bowls and shooting



Commonwealth Games will be safe despite attack promises Kalmadi

  • New Delhi 2010

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year September 20 - New Delhi will be safe during the Commonwealth Games, which is due to open next month, Indian officials have promised after fresh security fears were sparked by a gun attack.

"Yesterday's shooting was a one-off incident which was not targeted at the Games," Suresh Kalmadi

" The shooting came just a fortnight before 7,000 athletes and officials from countries visit

Authorities called for calm after the shooting, while police cast doubt about a claim of responsibility


Exclusive: Moment of truth looms for Woodward programme

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By David Owen in London September 16 - Sir Clive Woodward’s Olympic Coaching Programme faces a critical week, with findings of a Deloitte report due to be presented to the British Olympic Association (BOA) board next Wednesday (September 22).

Sir Clive has been working with shooting, but Hunt said that this work "has largely completed".


British Paralympic champion excited about competing at Stoke Mandeville

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By Tom Degun September 14 - British Paralympic shooting star Matt Skelhon, widely regarded as one of

the prospect of competing in front of a home crowd when the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting

The 25-year-old from Peterborough, who took up competitive shooting after being injured in a car accident

"It’s a great opportunity to play against people in my own country and I have been shooting well in my

"We are delighted that the IPC Shooting World Cup 2010 will be part of this programme."

SH2 shooters place their rifles on a spring loaded stand when shooting.

The event will feature 10 metre target shooting in both rifle and pistol disciplines.



World silver medals for British modern pentathletes

  • Modern Pentathlon

September 4 - Britain’s women took the silver medals in the team competition at the modern pentathlon World Championships in China today.

  Fell climbed to fourth place after the first shooting element of the run/shoot, but had a disappointing


Heather Mills claims that Sochi 2014 target is for real

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By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 31 - Heather Mills (pictured), the former wife of Beatle Paul McCartney, claims that she has relocated to Carinthia and hired a ski coach to pursue her ambition of competing for Britain at the 2014 Sochi Paralympics.

newspaper, Kleine Zeitung, also reported today that over the weekend Mills turned up at a shooting


Curtain falls on inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore

  • Singapore 2010

By Tom Degun in Singapore August 26 - The inaugural Summer Youth Olympic Games officially drew to a close here  tonight with a stunning display of blazing fireworks, emotive music and dazzling dance performances at a memorable ceremony here on the world’s largest floating stage in Marina Bay.

Teo Ser Luck, to the President of the IOC, to the Mayor of Nanjing Ji Jianye and finally to Chinese shooting


Stoke Mandeville giving youngsters opportunity to shine

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By Tom Degun August 25 - WheelPower, the national charity for wheelchair sport, are celebrating two years to the London 2012 Paralympic Games by providing young disabled people aged 12-18 with a chance to play sport through the Time to Shine initative at Stoke Mandeville Stadium.

international athletics and archery competitions and this October will host the Paralympic World Cup Shooting


Laser guns to be used in modern pentathlon at London 2012

  • Modern Pentathlon

By Duncan Mackay in Singapore British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 23 - Modern pentathlon is set to undergo another radical change in its format for the London 2012 Olympics after a successful trial of laser guns instead of air pistols at the inaugural Summer Youth Olympic Games here.

The introduction of the new technology will reduce the cost of shooting by two thirds in the sport

"We will have laser shooting for the London Games," he said.

The sport had already combined its two final events - running and shooting - into a single run/shoot

"I think the laser shooting is a great improvement to the sport," he said.