2010
12
Jan
The Telegraph reports that British Shooting has been advised by the government that if it wants a post 2012 legacy at Woolwich, it will have to pay £400K for the privilege.I wonder if that figure will be added to the Olympics budget, even if British S…
2009
19
Nov
It seems that mere mortals in Woolwich, not lucky enough to be granted special travel lanes/travel arrangements for the Olympics, will be suffering some considerable travel inconvenience during (and indeed in the 9 months preceding) the London Olympics…
2009
18
Sep
The London Olympics bid showed an artist’s impression of a female competitor aiming her shotgun in full view of the grade II-listed frontage of the Royal Artillery barracks Woolwich.The reality will be somewhat less impressive. Owing to health and safe…
2009
4
Jun
Lord Lucas, during question time on Tuesday, said:”Is it not a strange definition of cost-effective and a most appalling waste to spend £40m on a shooting venue at Woolwich, which will be destroyed immediately after the Olympics, rather than £10m les…
2008
16
Aug
Alaskans Matt and Katerina Emmons just got something else to talk about over dinner: their gold and silver medals in the Olympic shooting event.
The deadeye husband-wife tandem of shooters Matt and Katerina Emmons continued wearing out the path to the medals podium at the Beijing Summer Games.
Matt is a former University of Alaska Fairbanks [...]
2008
16
Aug
Vincent Hancock from the United States has won the gold medal in the men’s skeet at the Beijing Olympic Games with a total of 145 hits. Hancock had to battle off Tore Brovola of Norway in a shoot-off for the gold. Anthony Terras of France took the bronze medal, also after a shoot-off.
2008
15
Aug
Oleksandr Petriv of Ukraine has won the gold medal in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol with a score of 780.2 to set a new Olympic record.
Ralf Schumann (779.5) and Christian Reitz (779.3) won the silver and bronze medals for Germany.
2008
14
Aug
Artur Ayvazian from Ukraine has won the gold medal in the men’s 50 meter rifle prone at the Beijing Olympics, with a total score of 702.7 points.
The United States‘ Matthew Emmons won the silver medal with a total of 701.7 and Australia’s Warren Potent won the bronze medal with a total of 700.5.
2008
14
Aug
Chiara Cainero from Italy won the gold medal in the afternoon rain, in the women’s skeet at the Beijing Olympics.
Kimberly Rhode of the United States and Christine Brinker of Germany won the bronze medal.
2008
14
Aug
Du Li from China has won the gold medal in the women’s 50m rifle three positions setting a new Olympic record of 690.3 points.
Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic won the silver medal with 687.7 points, and Eglis Yaima Cruz of Cuba with 687.6 points won the bronze medal.