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Indian Government admits Commonwealth Games behind schedule

  • Archive News

India's Government today admitted that 12 of 17 projects needed for the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games are behind schedule.

The Commonwealth Shooting Championships, which was due to be held at the range in October, has had to


Deng set to miss EuroBasket claim Bulls

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June 27 - Luol Deng (pictured), Britain's most influential player, is set to miss the European Championships in Poland later this year because he has not fully recovered from injury, the Chicago Bulls have claimed.

offseason program and lifting on a consistent basis and getting on the floor as far as running and shooting


British women strike gold at Modern Pentathlon champs

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June 27 - Britain’s Heather Fell (pictured) won a silver medal in  the Modern Pentathlon European Championships silver medal in Leipzig today and helped Britain win the team gold medals.

two good runs and shoots but was overtaken by Russia’s Evdokia Gretchichnikova in the final round of shooting


British women strike gold at Modern Pentathlon champs

  • Modern Pentathlon

June 27 - Britain’s Heather Fell (pictured) won a silver medal in  the Modern Pentathlon European Championships silver medal in Leipzig today and helped Britain win the team gold medals.

two good runs and shoots but was overtaken by Russia’s Evdokia Gretchichnikova in the final round of shooting


Japanese Olympic official fears Obama factor in 2016 race

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June 22 -  Japan's former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (pictured) fears that Barack Obama could swing the 2016 Olympic race towards Chicago in the same way that Tony Blair helped London 2012 win four years ago.

October 2, even though Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso is a former Olympic competitor, having competed in shooting



Larry Eder: The Beijing Olympics will prove to be good value

  • The Big Read (Paralympics)

By Larry Eder - 19 June 2009   It was reported on this website today that an internal audit conducted by the State Council  that the Olympics made a modest profit of 1.16 billion yuan (£88.8 million) off an expenditure of 19.3 billion yuan  (£1.7 billion) and income of 20.5 billion yuan (£1.8 million).    

  Larry Eder is the President at Running Network LLC and Group Publisher at Shooting Star Media


Gold medal for Terry in Turkey

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Britain's Simon Terry (pictured) won the gold medal  at the FITA World Cup event in Antalya, Turkey, boosting his chances of reaching September's Grand Final in Copenhagen.

"I have been shooting well all the week long.  

"I mean shooting 110 points with a six is a pretty good thing."  


Rio establishes Olympic Wood to celebrate Environment Day

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Rio de Janeiro has planted an Olympic Wood to celebrate World Environment Day and to demonstrate its environmental commitment if it is chosen to follow London and host the 2016 Games.

  The Olympic Wood has been planted next to the Shooting Centre at Deodoro Sports Complex and was

The Shooting Center was built for the Rio 2007 Pan American Games and is one of the proposed Rio 2016

Municipal Environment Secretariat, Marcus Vinícius Carrasqueira; and the vice-president of the Brazilian Shooting


Peer blasts Woolwich shooting venue as waste of time

  • Shooting

June 5 - Plans to build a £40 million shooting venue at Woolwich for the Olympic Games have been lambasted

The Conservative Peer said the project was a “most appalling waste” and called for the 2012 shooting

events to be moved to Bisley in Surrey, where the National Shooting Centre (NSC) is based.Lucas said

it not a strange definition of cost-effective and a most appalling waste to spend £40 million on a shooting

chairman of the British Olympic Association and a member of the London 2012 Board, said holding the shooting



Gill makes Commmonwealth Games priority in second term

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May 29 - Preparations for next year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi will be the main priority for M S Gill (pictured) he said after being reconfirmed today as India's Youth Affairs and Sports Minister.

"Most of the stadiums would be ready by December, even though venues for cycling, swimming and shooting


Cash boost for Scottish sport

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May 12 - Sportscotland is to invest over a £1 million in Commonweath Games sports in the build-up to Glasgow 2014, it was announced today.

  The funding will be shared by four sports - cycling, triathlon, wrestling and target shooting -



New Delhi forced to postpone event because of building delay

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May 1 - The Commonwealth Shooting Championships, due to be held in New Delhi this October and supposed

It was planned that the venue would host the Commonwealth Shooting Championships in October but the National

Rifle Association of India (NRAI) requested the Commonwealth Shooting Federation (CSF) change in dates

"The Commonwealth Shooting Championship will now be held from February, which gives us a good four months