For any of you who were planning to go to the World Cup Shooting event at the Woolwich Olympic Range in April please be warned that contrary to what it says on the event website it is effectively NON SPECTATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The site is under high security now and you will be turned away!

World Cups are normally free and open to who ever wishes to go but LOCOG have decided this will be ticket only and there are only 50 a day and don't bother to ask, they are going to dignitaries, etc, and have already been allocated.
This has been kept well quiet and many of us have been working for some time to get tickets, the NSRA, British Shooting, are playing pass the hot potatoe and not acting, politicians don't care, we only found out the truth from foreign teams who had been warned that family and friends travelling with the team should get the team to apply for tickets! Yesterday I got a reply from the sports minister which stated, it was restricted and it was nothing to do with him, it was LOCOG!

LOCOG just refer to it as a "test event" and say it is only to test the site not security or spectator management so they are not budgeting or providing that other than for competitors and officials!! It a WORLD CUP for FS!
So we have an Olympic range which will be pulled down after the Olympics, we are'nt allowed to hold our national Championships on it even though its finished and un used when they are scheduled, and now we can't even go and watch the best in the World on our range in the only World Cup this country will be permitted to hold (probably for ever).
Makes you Proud to be British!
Robin