Quote Originally Posted by Jimlad View Post
1 The epitome of athletic achievement is the Olympiad! Only two other sports attract more participating countries than this at the Olympics.

2 You can take up this sport at any age, and still reach full international
standard in a relatively short time.

3 In most other sports you are over the hill by the age of twenty! In this sport, there have been British
Champions of twenty, and sixty, and every age between.

4 There are girl’s sports and boy’s sports, but this is both.

5 There are indoor sports and outdoor sports. This sport is both.

6 This is the only sport featured at both Winter and Summer Olympic Games.

7 Football requires a team, whilst an individual can compete at athletics. This sport offers individual or
team participation, or both at once.

8 This sport has a zero injury and accident record. It is the safest sport of all.

9 This needs at minimum, little more than a room 50feet by 20 feet.

10 This is among the most disciplined of all sports and teaches concentration.

11 “Purity” is a term used in sport to describe the degree of precision required to execute a physical
function. This is the purest of all sports.

12 In some sports, you may see violence or gamesmanship. Not in this sport.

13 In this sport the disabled can compete on level terms with the able bodied.

14 In this sport, nobody sits on the bench. All play.

WHAT IS THIS SPORT?



Jim
Which makes it all the sadder that we (the taxpayer) are paying for an Olympic range at cost £50M+ which will be used for a World Cup event in April, left empty, and used for the Olympics in June. And then? IT WILL BE PULLED DOWN!!!!! Olympic legacy, shooting will get zero! Even the range equipment will go to Scotland for the commonwealth games, and then will be sold! Not distributed to clubs as equipment from other sports will be. The shooters of Britain get nothing!
The London Olympic Committee will not even allow the range to be used during the empty period for the English Championships in May or the NSRA 50 mt championships!
Write to your MP as I have done, he will refer it to the Sports Minister, and he will not reply! Chase the MP, and he will not reply.
Robin