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New CGF chief executive confident Indian hockey teams will compete at Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

New Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief executive Katie Sadleir has joined officials growing increasingly confident that India will reverse a decision to withdraw its hockey teams from Birmingham 2022.

bronze-medal playoff.Relations between the CGF and India have been strained since it was announced that shooting


Guernsey

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Some athletes will only learn if they are heading to the Commonwealth Games at the last moment, but that won't be the case in Guernsey.

 Guernsey is another team disappointed that shooting has not made the Birmingham 2022 programme

rapid fire pistol at Auckland 1990.The consolation prize of the standalone Commonwealth Archery and Shooting


Mike Rowbottom: Time for the pentathletes to be front and centre

  • Inside the Blogs

Over the years, writing up International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) events, I’ve noticed an odd thing. The official picture accompanying reports tends to feature a line of officials in the foreground, often with the current President of the UIPM, Klaus Schormann, front and centre.

2008 and 2012 Olympics, pentathletes had to come to terms with two seismic changes as the running and shooting

disciplines were combined into a final, alternating event – and the shooting itself became something

Modern pentathlon, strongly rumoured to be for the chop 10 years ago, is still up and shooting/running.Front

riding gone regard it as the most expensive element of the five events – fencing, swimming, riding, shooting





Asian quota places in shooting increase for Paris 2024 Olympics

  • Shooting

The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) has increased the number of quotas for Asian nations

and territories by 10 for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, as revealed by the Asian Shooting Confederation

The Asian Shooting Confederation expresses its gratitude to the ISSF and all members who contributed

period as well as activity on the development fund, which is to run initially until 2022.The Asian Shooting

confirming that the Olympic Quota Places for Asia is increased from 38 to 48 Quota Places.The Asian Shooting

contributed to this achievement— ASC (@Asian_Shooting) November 13, 2021This fund helps developing shooting

2021; while the disciplinary regulations and guidelines for environment were approved.The Palestine Shooting



Ferriani succeeds Chiulli as GAISF President at General Assembly

  • News

Ivo Ferriani has been elected Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) President on a two-year term at the organisation's virtual General Assembly today.

also saw the approval of the organisation's 2021 budget and 2020 accounts.The International Practical Shooting




Falkland Islands

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

You would be hard pushed to find a team more enthused about the Commonwealth Games than the Falkland Islands.

"Shooting was the first ever sport that we took part in, and the Falklands has a very long tradition

in shooting."

vocally protested the absence of shooting.The country was due to host a separate Commonwealth Archery and Shooting


Malta

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

For Charlene Attard, Malta's Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022, next year's Commonwealth Games cannot come soon enough.

Coast - thanks to Brian Galea in the men's trap shooting.Brian Galea continued Malta's medal success in shooting

medals since a second and a third place finish in Melbourne in 2006.Both of these medals also came in shooting


Pistorius set for parole once he meets parents of murdered girlfriend

  • Athletics News

Oscar Pistorius is set to be released from prison once he has agreed to meet with the parents of Reva Steenkamp, the girlfriend he was convicted of murdering in 2013, it has been reported.

for both parties told the Associated Press.Pistorius was sentenced to 13 years and five months after shooting


Modernised Pentathlon - riding for a fall?

  • The Big Read

The debacle that occurred during the equestrian section of the Tokyo 2020 modern pentathlon competition was described by the man who has ruled the sport since 1993 as a "vital learning moment." And so it has proved.

to four days, partly to dissuade competitors from taking sedatives or beta blockers to enhance their shooting

later, women made their Olympic debut in the event.From January 1, 2009, the final two elements of shooting

This testing amalgam of fencing, swimming, riding, shooting and running was created by de Coubertin in

A foot race, horse race, a swimming race, fencing match and finally a shooting contest which I would

We would suggest the following order - shooting, foot race, fencing, swimming, equestrian."