APRIL 11 - MORE THAN £65 million of extra Government funding was given to Britain’s Olympic sports by UK Sport today. The awards range from an extra four per cent a year for triathlon to a whopping 379 per cent for wrestling as Britain seeks to achieve its ultimate target of finishing fourth in the Olympic medals table in 2012 and top of the Paralympic table as well as being represented in all 26 sports that will make up the Games in London. Nearly all of Britain’s sports benefited from the funding – the only two who did not receive...

Pentathlon£4,658,00019 per cent24  Rowing £20,049,0008 per cent1449  Sailing£17,194,0009 per cent1118  Shooting

 APRIL 6 - DAVID HIGGINS, the chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority, has promised that the facilities for the 2012 Olympics will be delivered on time and that London and the country would be proud.

machine started tunnelling beneath the Thames to extend the Docklands Light Railway in time for Olympic shooting

The two sports that replaced them were badminton and shooting.

They joined athletics, badminton, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, lawn bowls, shooting, squash, swimming

March 26 - Lazlo Szucsak, India's highly-rated Hungarian-born shooting coach who helped guide Abhinav

The Hungarian has now left to begin a four-year contract with Iran, where he will guide their shooting

March 26 - Lazlo Szucsak, India's highly-rated Hungarian-born shooting coach who helped guide Abhinav

The Hungarian has now left to begin a four-year contract with Iran, where he will guide their shooting

March 20 - The Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich will struggle to host the shooting during the 2012

Robertson had backed a plan to move the sport to the National Shooting Centre (NSC) at Bisley but the

of an operational ceremonial unit, in The King's Troop, the construction and testing of an Olympic shooting

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March 21 - London 2012 officials are to be asked by the British Association of Shooting and Conservation

to explain why they refused to move the controversial shooting venue from Woolwich to Bisley.

  The group, a representative body for sporting shooting in the UK, claimed that the Royal Artillery

closure of roads and the moving of people from their homes to achieve the required safety margins for the shooting

Secondly and most importantly Woolwich, despite assurances to the contrary, will it fail to give British Shooting

Cost paring, ineffective decision making and a lack of consultation will sell shooting short for the

, BASC will continue to give whatever support it can to ensure as many British medal winners in the shooting

March 21 - London 2012 officials are to be asked by the British Association of Shooting and Conservation

to explain why they refused to move the controversial shooting venue from Woolwich to Bisley.

  The group, a representative body for sporting shooting in the UK, claimed that the Royal Artillery

closure of roads and the moving of people from their homes to achieve the required safety margins for the shooting

Secondly and most importantly Woolwich, despite assurances to the contrary, will it fail to give British Shooting

Cost paring, ineffective decision making and a lack of consultation will sell shooting short for the

, BASC will continue to give whatever support it can to ensure as many British medal winners in the shooting