The first Gold Medal of the Beijing Olympic Games went to the Czech Republic’s Katerina Emmons in the 10m air rifile event. She finished with a score of 503.5, a new Olympic record. Silver went to Lyubov Galkina of Russia and the Bronze was awarded to Snjezanan Pejcic of Croatia. IOC President, Jacques Rogge was […]
Here are today’s scheduled events:
Archery
Women’s Team Archery - 1/8 Eliminations
Women’s Team Archery - Quarterfinal matches
Badminton
Women’s Singles - Round of 64 matches
Women’s Singles - Round of 32 matches
Men’s Singles - Round of 64 matches
Women’s Doubles - Round of 16 matches
Basketball
Women’s - Preliminary Group A game 3 (RUS vs LAT) […]
US Shooting Gold Medalist, Matt Emmons met his wife, Czech Olympic shooter Katerina Kurkova, at the 2004 Athens Games and married her in 2007. Now the two of them are headed for Beijing.
Emmons earned a Gold Medal in Athens in the 50m prone rifle event and looked to be headed for a second Gold when […]
Antoaneta Boneva, a member of Bulgaria’s Olympic team, has been dropped after testing positive for cocaine! Wow. I’m not trying to be callous but I’m glad she was forced out since I don’t think a sharp shooter on drugs is the safest thing in the world.
The 22-year-old, who was set to compete in the 25-meter […]
Shooting competitions have been a part of every Olympics since 1896, with the exception of 1904 and 1928. The competition has grown from two events to seventeen, settling at 15 events for the Beijing games.
Shooting events include:
Mens: 10 metre air pistol, 10 metre air rifle, 25 metre rapid fire pistol, 50 metre pistol, 50 metre […]
Here are a couple of articles on Olympic berths for China and Great Britain, respectively.
China reaps two Olympic quota places at Asian Shooting Championships
KUWAIT CITY, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — World champion Jia Zhanbo raised up and waved to the audiences after he made the last shot. A smile on his face, the Chinese shooter knew […]
KORAT: A dream came true for Malaysian pistol shooter Hasli Izwan Amir Hasan when he made the cut for the Beijing Olympics from the Asian Championships in Kuwait on Sunday.
The 30-year-old Hasli earned the ticket in style, bagging the silver in the 25m rapid fire pistol event and breaking his own national record. The […]
Gulf Times gives us a great news round up of the 15th ASIAN Games, Doha 2006 held in Doha, Quatar.
India cueing up for medals
India’s shooters protest against ‘rude’ officials
Murofushi pulls out
Blatter defends decision to allow Iran to play at Games
Australians could join Asian Games: Blatter
India unfazed by Rasquinha’s shocking ouster
Japan aiming to restore judo pride
India […]
Bruce Scott won a Commonwealth Games Gold yesterday in the Shooting event, Full bore category.
To say that he fired fourteen of his best shots in his life to describe the winning performance is quite dramatic, you might think but if you were in his shoes, aiming at small targets from 900 yards away, then […]
It’s Day 6 of the Games and India leads with 11 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze in the Shooting events. I reckon this is due to their very own sharpshooter, Samaresh Jung, who now has a total of four Gold medals and running for yet another three.
Australia follows with 7 Gold, 5 Silver and […]
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