By Duncan Mackay January 8 - The United States Defence Department and United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have launched the inaugural Warrior Games for troops injured in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at a special ceremony at the Pentagon.

The USOC will host the Games, and events will include shooting, swimming, archery,track and field, cycling

January 7 - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended Kuwait's Olympic Committee (KOC)  because of alleged political interference by the Government, they have announced.

their only medal coming at Sydney in 2000 when Fehaid Al Deehani won a bronze in the men's double trap shooting

History Biathlon - an event that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting - did not start

When the athletes ski into the shooting ranges - located at various intervals along the course - they

  When shooting in the prone position, the target diameter is 45millimetres.

  When shooting in the standing position, the target diameter is 115millimetres.

Useless Information Flags in the shooting range indicate wind direction.

January 5 - Greenwich will be a Royal Borough when it hosts events during the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics after it was told today that it will receive the honour as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in that year.

equestrian events and modern pentathlon in Greenwich Park, basketball and gymnastics in the O2, and shooting

By Tom Degun January 4 - ParalympicsGB today begun hosting the first of their preparation camps for the London 2012 Games at the University of Bath on the same day they have announced that Dr Nick Webborn (pictured) will be the team's chief medical officer for 2012.

preparation camp which will be hosting nine sports: archery, fencing, goalball, judo, powerlifting, shooting

), a former Commonwealth champion, has been appointed as the new head rifle coach of Britain's shooting

at the 2006 World Championships in Zagreb, and has recently stepped down from the Board of British Shooting

, where he has been the representative of Scottish Target Shooting since 2006.

  He holds an International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) ‘B’ Coaches License

champion in all three of the Olympic rifle events, and won gold medals at the 1999 and 2001 Commonwealth Shooting

By Tom Degun December 28 - Matt Skelhon (pictured), the Beijing 2008 Paralympic gold medallist, is entering the New Year on a massive high after equalling the world record in the R3 10 metre air rifle prone category.

this year following the 2008 Paralympics but since we have been back in training and competition, I'm shooting

than there would be anywhere else in the world because it’s your home crowd that you’re shooting

By Tom Degun December 28 - Matt Skelhon (pictured), the Beijing 2008 Paralympic gold medallist, is entering the New Year on a massive high after equalling the world record in the R3 10 metre air rifle prone category.

this year following the 2008 Paralympics but since we have been back in training and competition, I'm shooting

than there would be anywhere else in the world because it’s your home crowd that you’re shooting

seemed something of a U-turn, awarding less favoured sports including water polo, weightlifting and shooting

It has been little over two weeks since the 1,000 days to go to the Paralympic Games celebrations took place at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich Park and now is perhaps as good a time as any to reflect back upon them.

medallist in archery and sure-fire tip for 2012, and Matt Skelhon, another Beijing gold medallist in shooting

December 3 marked 1,000 days to go to the London 2012 Paralympic Games and, as Deloitte has long been an active supporter of disability sport in the UK, we were keen to celebrate this milestone in style. So a group of Deloitte Partners, including myself, was invited to take part in a wheelchair basketball game with players from the Great Britain men’s and women’s squads, who train just outside Manchester.

  As well as the challenges of manoeuvring around the court, I also found shooting very difficult

By Tom Degun in London December 10 - UK Sport today announced their revised investment figures for all funded sports following a thorough Annual Review process which gave a huge boost to the so-called minor sports ahead of their London 2012 preparations.

The biggest winners of the announcement are water-polo, weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, shooting

No Olympic sport, with the possible exception of financially-savaged shooting, has suffered more vicissitudes

 By Duncan Mackay   November 23 - London 2012 remains on time and within budget, new official data published today by the Government and Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) claimed.

contingency was spent partly on investigating the suitability of Barking and Dagenham as a venue location for shooting

 By Duncan Mackay   November 23 - London 2012 remains on time and within budget, new official data published today by the Government and Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) claimed.

contingency was spent partly on investigating the suitability of Barking and Dagenham as a venue location for shooting