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NBA star looking for another taste of Olympic glory at Paris 2024

  • Basketball

Zach LaVine, a member of the United States basketball team that won the Olympic gold medals at Tokyo 2020, has announced that he wants to play again at next year’s Games in Paris.

and earlier this month in the NBA ended his fourth career game with at least 40 points on 70 per cent shooting


British 400m runner Rooney reveals prison visits to Pistorius and says he didn't intend to murder girlfriend

  • Athletics News

British 400 metres runner Martyn Rooney has revealed he has made prison visits to see his friend and former training partner Oscar Pistorius and believes he did not mean to kill his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.

amputated before he was one, went through a long legal process before receiving a 15-year sentence for shooting

Lifestories podcast, the 35-year-old double European champion recalled how he had heard the news about the shooting

Less than six months after the London 2012 Paralympics, Oscar Pistorius faced prosecution after shooting



Rotterdam to host first-ever European Para Championships in 2023

  • European Para Championships

Rotterdam in The Netherlands is set to host the first European Para Championships this year, featuring 10 Para sports in one host city.

archery, Para badminton, wheelchair tennis, boccia, goalball, wheelchair basketball, Para judo, Para shooting


Zabystran and Dorigo seal postponed Alpine skiing golds at Lake Placid 2023

  • Alpine Skiing

Czech Republic's Jan Zabystran and Germany's Fabiana Dorigo claimed gold in the postponed Alpine skiing events at the Lake Placid 2023 International University Sports Federation (FISU) Winter World University Games.

Hoevenberg complex.Vadim Kurales clinched the men's 15km victory after a near-perfect performance from the shooting

to finish in 42:52.9 on the clock.Barbara Skrobiszewska of Poland won the silver medal with just one shooting


Norwegian women earn first relay win of season at IBU World Cup in Ruhlpolding

  • Biathlon

Norway's women earned their first relay victory of the season at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in the German venue of Ruhpolding after a dramatic and competitive 4x6 kilometres event.

After the fifth shooting France, Norway and Italy were all within touching distance of each other.But

home 15.3sec ahead of their nearest challengers, Germany, in 1hr 08min 17.3sec.Tandrevold’s perfect shooting


Technology giants sign deal to support Norway's Summit 2024 programme

  • Paris 2024

The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee (NIF) elite performance programme Summit 2024 is to be sponsored by global technology giant Kongsberg Gruppen.

expected to provided support to aquatics, canoeing, martial arts sports, rowing, sailing, skateboarding, shooting


Vittozzi celebrates first individual IBU World Cup victory for three years in Ruhpolding

  • Biathlon

Italy’s Lisa Vittozzi won her first International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup race since 2019 when she crossed the line first in the women’s 15 kilometres individual race in Ruhpolding today.

Key to Vittozzi’s victory was her clean shooting as she never held the lead until the final standing

I try to stay quiet and calm before the shooting range."

My first clean shooting in an individual race; it was a goal to achieve that today."


Bø admits eighth IBU World Cup victory of season in Ruhpolding one of the hardest

  • Biathlon

Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Bø secured his eighth victory of this year’s International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in Ruhpolding when he won the men’s 20 kilometres individual, overcoming two costly one-minute time penalties in the process.

Sjaastad Christiansen looked like he was going to triumph on the soft tracks with a confident display of shooting

was his skiing, which helped him recover from the time penalties he suffered at the first and last shooting

Because with three mistakes on one shooting, it is three minutes, and you are just 40th or 50th."

I was quite sad leaving the last shooting.


Bø claims third pursuit and sprint double at Biathlon World Cup in Pokljuka

  • Biathlon

Johannes Thingnes Bø claimed his third pursuit and sprint double of the season at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in Pokljuka, Slovenia.

claiming a comfortable victory despite being hit with two penalties for missing targets during the shooting

nbsp;Elsewhere today at the Pokljuka Sport Center, Elvira Öberg of Sweden produced a clean display of shooting

To be in the lead the entire race, shooting on lane one and shooting clean really means a lot," Öberg


Bø returns to winning ways at Biathlon World Cup in Pokljuka

  • Biathlon

Johannes Thingnes Bø returned to winning ways at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in Pokljuka, Slovenia.

win by 48.1 seconds.Tarjei Bø moved up to second after a clean display in the standing part of the shooting


Öberg wins first Biathlon World Cup event of 2023 as she takes women’s sprint crown

  • Biathlon

Elvira Öberg took the first International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup event of 2023 as the Swedish athlete won the women’s 7.5 kilometres sprint title in Pokljuka, Slovenia.

medals at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, including silver in this event, managed two clean rounds of shooting

completing the podium in 20:43.9.Reflecting on her win Öberg said: "I am most happy about the clean shooting


Government papers reveal Glasgow 2014 fears over dropping shooting even after Dunblane massacre

  • Glasgow 2014

Shooting was almost left off the sporting programme at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow because

Scotland Jack McConnell, noted that planning for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow was under way, and that shooting

deaths of 18 people, including the perpetrator Thomas Hamilton ©Getty ImagesMinisters then decided that shooting

handguns have occurred.Barry Buddon Training Camp, a Ministry of Defence facility near Dundee, staged shooting

during the 2014 Commonwealth Games ©Glasgow 2014Australia topped the standings in the Glasgow 2014 shooting



"Baba Harry" still playing his part 68 years after escaping weightlifting murder

  • Weightlifting

When Harry Tchobanian takes his seat on the jury at the Qatar Cup and West Asian Championships here today it will mark the start of his 75th year in weightlifting as an athlete, coach and technical official.

The chasers were shooting at me - they all had guns from the police department.Harry Tchobanian tops