A PETITION has been set up on the Number 10 Downing Street website by British volleyball player Lucy Wicks (pictured) to protest at the decision not to give any funding yet to eight sports to help their preparations for London 2012.

They, along with beach volleyball, fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis, water polo and wrestling.must

 JUNE 29 - THE new head of athletics in the United Arab Emirates has unveiled a multi-million pound plan to turn the country into a force by the time of the 2012 Olympics.

UAE has only ever won one Olympic medal - when Ahmed Al Maktoum claimed the gold in the double trap shooting

  ZHANG SHAN (pictured), the 1992 Olympic skeet champion, has been hired by India to coach its shooting

made history at the 1992 Games in Barcelona where she became the first and the only woman to win a shooting

  AUGUST 12 - A ROW over Olympic judging has erupted in Beijing amid accusations from countries including Britain and Australia that Chinese competitors were unfairly favoured.

Australia's Russell Mark voiced concerns over the judging at today's double trap shooting, saying it

 MAY 2 - BEIJING'S controversial Olympic torch made a relatively trouble-free journey today through the streets of Hong Kong as it arrived back on Chinese soil.

traditional dragon boats and even ferried across the city's famed Victoria Harbour, escorted by a fireboat shooting

  MAY 2 - SHOOTING has again criticised London 2012 over the decision to host their sport at the Royal

  The choice of venue has been opposed by every shooting organisation in the UK because it will be

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) are the latest to join the criticism as

National Shooting Week takes place.  

"It is a real shame that it seems there may not be a lasting legacy for shooting sports after the Games

  MAY 2 - SHOOTING has again criticised London 2012 over the decision to host their sport at the Royal

  The choice of venue has been opposed by every shooting organisation in the UK because it will be

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) are the latest to join the criticism as

National Shooting Week takes place.  

"It is a real shame that it seems there may not be a lasting legacy for shooting sports after the Games

  DESIGNS were unveiled today for, what the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) claimed, was a “simple, efficient and flexible” London 2012 Handball Arena that will become a new multi-sports facility in legacy.

handball preliminaries and quarter finals as well as the Modern Pentathlon disciplines of Fencing and Shooting

  DESIGNS were unveiled today for, what the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) claimed, was a “simple, efficient and flexible” London 2012 Handball Arena that will become a new multi-sports facility in legacy.

handball preliminaries and quarter finals as well as the Modern Pentathlon disciplines of Fencing and Shooting

  A DELEGATION from Pakistan is to visit Stoke-on-Trent later this year to discuss using the Midlands city as its pre-Games training base for the London 2012 Olympics.

The only other sports they were represnted in were athletics, shooting and swimming.  

  HEATHER FELL (pictured) rounded off a terrific weekend for British Modern Pentathlon by striking gold at the World Cup at Millfield in Somerset today.

suffered a series of injuries, put together an outstanding sequence in the five disciplines, including shooting

Fell had taken the initiative early on, shooting 188 from a maximum possible 200 to score 1,192 points

  BRITAIN'S Sam Weale (pictured) is celebrating his first Modern Pentathlon World Cup medal after winning bronze at Millfield today.

Weale started the day brightly in the tense atmosphere of the shooting range.  

  SHOOTING has used its poor rating by UK Sport as an opportunity to again complain about the venue

of £600 million worth of National Lottery funding, yesterday admitted they were concerned about how shooting

Phil Boakes, the chairman of of British Shooting, told insidethegames: “We acknowledge the concerns contained

"No one wants to see money wasted which is why British Shooting are so disappointed at the way their

"Even though there had been no formal agreement that shooting sports would be located at the Royal Artillery

When this was queried British Shooting were told not to 'rock the boat' and endanger London's chances

  SHOOTING is causing the greatest concern among British officials of the 26 sports preparing for

measured on a traffic light system to assess their progress and the first report shows that only one - shooting

  Shooting was rated as `red' due to problems with the governance - the governing body is viewed

"   Peter Keen, the performance adviser for UK Sport, said shooting had an important role

  "If were are going to reach fourth place shooting is a sport that has to step up because

Red - Shooting.   LOW: Green - Fencing, Handball, Synchronised Swimming, Wresting.

  SHOOTING is causing the greatest concern among British officials of the 26 sports preparing for

measured on a traffic light system to assess their progress and the first report shows that only one - shooting

  Shooting was rated as `red' due to problems with the governance - the governing body is viewed

"   Peter Keen, the performance adviser for UK Sport, said shooting had an important role

  "If were are going to reach fourth place shooting is a sport that has to step up because

Red - Shooting.   LOW: Green - Fencing, Handball, Synchronised Swimming, Wresting.