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Britain reach basketball final despite Australia defeat

  • Latest (Paralympics)

By Tom Degun in Manchester May 29 - Britain men’s wheelchair basketball team today reached the final of the BT Paralympic World Cup despite suffering a 68-50 loss at the hands of Australia here today. 

we got into some foul trouble which created some problems and this entire tournament we’ve had shooting


Gold Coast to hold Commonwealth Games in October

  • Gold Coast 2018

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year May 27 - The 2018 Commonwealth Games will take place in mid-October if the Gold Coast are awarded the event and will include basketball, triathlon and wrestling, it has been announced.

badminton, boxing, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, squash, rugby sevens, weightlifting, cycling, gymnastics, shooting


Dorset World Cup has boosted British shooters London 2012 hopes

  • Shooting

By Tom Degun May 21 - Peter Underhill, the chairman of the organising committee for the 2010 ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Dorset, has claimed that Britain's shooters have boosted their hopes of success at the London 2012 Olympics with a series of encouraging performances.

  "As well as Aaron’s great result, we have had top level shooting of the highest

"I really would like to thank UK Sport from all in British Shooting, home and abroad, for their

" Franz Schreiber, the executive director of the International Shooting Sport Federation, said


Searle still on course for London 2012 after recall to British squad

  • Rowing

May 20 - Greg Searle (pictured) has rolled back the years to complete the first step of a remarkable Olympic comeback by winning a place in the British rowing squad.

"Now I see the standard of the boat and the quality of the people in it, I think we should be shooting


Exclusive: Dorset organisers forced to apologise to Indian shooters after World Cup row

  • Shooting

17 - The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) have accepted an apology from the International Shooting

Sethi said: "They apologised after we lodged a protest with the International Sports Shooting Federation

misunderstandings and all issues have now been addressed to the satisfaction of both the Indian shotgun shooting

He said: "This is not the first time the shooting contingent has been insulted in such fashion in

" Sandhu said: "Shooting is a mental game and Indian shooters may not be able to do so well



Paralympic medallist shares story and hopes to inspire other disabled mums

  • Latest (Paralympics)

May 8 - Canadian Paralympic medallist Heather Kuttai, who is paraplegic, has written a new book about dealing with pregnancy which she hopes will help inspire other disabled women.

Her father, George, was national and provincial competitor, began taking her to target shooting

By 1988, she was competing at the Paralympics in Seoul, where she earned two silver medals in target shooting


Skelhon leads British charge with hat-trick of medals

  • Latest (Paralympics)

April 30 - Britain’s disability shooting squad have returned from the latest World Cup in Antalaya

He scored 580 in the qualification round to enter the finals in third place before shooting 103.7 to



Caze comes from behind to deny Spence victory in Medway

  • Modern Pentathlon

April 11 - France's Amelie Caze (pictured) pipped Lithuania's Donata Rimsaite and Britain's Mhairi Spence to claim victory today in the Medway modern pentathlon World Cup.

Spence opened up a slight lead in the first kilometre run, but Caze was the first to leave the shooting

  Caze held on to her lead in the penultimate run and was again first away from the shooting range


Tom Degun: How hard can it be to run and shoot?

  • Inside the Blogs

UIPM) decided to radically alter their sport by combining two of the five events - the running and the shooting

The new run/shoot format basically involves athletes taking part of three bouts of pistol shooting followed

With my rather naïve view that shooting a few targets and running around a track couldn’t be that

We marched out to the impressive athletics track which featured the temporary shooting range set to be

The two of us sprinted across to our shooting stations and picked up our pistols once more.


Olympic gold medallist tells Indians "dare to dream"

  • Latest

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year April 4 - India can realistically expect to win 20 medals by the time of the 2020 Olympics, the country's first-ever individual gold medallist Abhinav Bindra (pictured) has claimed.

"I am sure we will win more than one medal in the next Olympics in shooting alone.



Commonwealth Games in Delhi will be wonderful predicts Hooper

  • New Delhi 2010

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year April 2 - New Delhi will host a successful Commonwealth Games, it was claimed today by Mike Hooper (pictured left), the chief executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), the organisers harshest critic.

He said: "We have had test events in shooting, boxing, archery and the hockey World Cup and


Azerbaijan to train in Ipswich before London 2012

  • London 2012

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year March 30 - Ipswich have become the latest town or city in Britain to reach an agreement with an overseas team to set-up a pre-Games training camp after Azerbaijan, including Olympic judo champion Elnur Mammadli (pictured), signed-up to base themselves there before London 2012.

Azerbaijan will be bringing but it is likely they will have athletes competing in judo, wrestling, shooting