History The official website of the ATHENS 2004 olympic Games Games of the XXVIII history. Results of the Day Image Gallery. Some form of shooting has been http://www.athens2004.gr/en/ShootingHistory
Extractions: Home Sports Shooting History Javascript must be enabled to view this page, although the important information on the page is also available to browsers that do not support scripts. Some form of Shooting has been around since prehistoric times, when men hunted prey to secure food or protect themselves from enemies. The ancient Greeks had dove-shooting contests in honour of their gods. By the 10th century, Indians, Slavs, Celts and Germans all practiced similar kinds of rituals. The invention of gunpowder provided great impetus to the sport, for it led to the development of the gun. The founding of Shooting clubs started in numerous European towns - in Germany and Switzerland, as early as the 13th and 14th centuries. Little by little, Shooting as a sport became very popular; 1907 saw the creation of what is known today as the International Shooting Sport Federation, originally called the International Shooting Union. Menâs Shooting was one of the nine sports on the programme of the first Olympic Games of modern times in Athens in 1896. In the Paris Games in 1900, live pigeons were used as moving targets; this was eventually considered unethical and unsporting, so after 1900 the pigeons were replaced with clay targets (âclay pigeonsâ). The womenâs Shooting disciplines were first included in the Los Angeles 1984 Games. Greeceâs first Olympic victories came in 1896. The medallists were: Georgios Frangoudis (pistol, 25 m, gold; rifle, 300 m, silver); Georgios Orfanidis (rifle, 300 m, gold; pistol, 25 m, silver); Pantelis Karasevdas (gras gun, 200 m, gold); and P. Pavlidis (gras gun, 200 m, silver).
Modern Olympic History The modern olympic Games belong to our era. The way they are organized, fencing, rowing, sailing, and target shooting with both rifle and pistol. http://www.wam.umd.edu/~esimons1/modern.html
Extractions: The modern Olympic Games belong to our era. The way they are organized, their ceremonies and symbolism reflect modern reality, not ancient tradition. The Games are not only about the athletes. The Games are not just a question of records and numbers. Hidden behind the statistics, the medals, the records are important ideas, experiences, questions about participation and exclusion, rivalry and competition, victory and defeat, commitment and exertion, the athletic ideal and commercialization. The Games concern everyone participating in them, in whatever way. They have to do with individuals and social groups, cities and countries. They speak of symbols, heroes and myths. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the man who inspired the revival of the Olympic Games Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Frenchman, is justly given credit for establishing the modern Olympics, but it was England that revived the idea, and it was in England that Coubertin was introduced to it. As early as 1612, Robert Dover established an English version of the Olympic Games in the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire. Events included card games, chess, and dancing, as well as running, jumping, the hammer throw, pitching the bar, wrestling, and horse racing.
Skeet Shooting History font size=4 Thank you for visiting with us at the Skeet shooting history Society . producer of the olympic Games, where skeet shooting was first included http://huntingsociety.org/HistSkeetshooting.html
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Extractions: RecFacts 513: Canada's Summer Olympic History Team G S B Total Size 1896 Athens Did Not Compete 1900 Paris 1 1 2 1* 1904 St. Louis 4 1 1 6 43 1907 London 3 3 9 15 91 1912 Stockholm 3 2 3 8 36 1916 Berlin Games Not Held 1920 Antwerp 2 3 3 8 47 1924 Paris 3 1 4 73 1928 Amsterdam 4 4 7 15 71 1932 Los Angeles 2 5 8 15 102 1936 Berlin 1 3 5 9 109 1940 Tokyo, Helsinki Games Not Held 1944 London Games Not Held 1948 London 1 2 3 106 1952 Helsinki 1 2 3 113 1956 Melbourne 2 1 3 6 99 1960 Rome 1 1 97 1964 Tokyo 1 2 1 4 118 1968 Mexico City 1 3 1 5 143 1972 Munich 2 3 5 220 1976 Montreal 5 6 11 414 1980 Moscow Did Not Compete 211** 1984 Los Angeles 10 18 16 44 436 1988 Seoul 3 2 5 10 354 1992 Barcelona 6 5 7 18 314 1996 Atlanta Totals 38 61 75 174 * No official team sent, but George Orton, a Canadian studying in the United States, won two medals competing on his own.
USA Archery, About Us - History and has been the most widely used of all weapons in recorded history. In butt shooting, the ancestor of olympic target archery, bowmen aimed at http://www.usarchery.org/usarchery/html/History.html
Extractions: History Archery is one of the oldest arts of ancient times which is still practiced today. From its first development until the 1500s, the bow was man's constant companion and has been the most widely used of all weapons in recorded history. The bow allowed the prehistoric human to become the most efficient hunter on earth, providing him safety, food and raw materials such as bone, sinew and hide. From that time on, archery has played an important role in many of the world's civilizations. Starting with the reign of William the Conqueror, the bow was England's principal weapon of national defense for several centuries. Around the year 1200, Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes conquered much of the known world employing short, powerful bows. For Native Americans, archery was the means of subsistence and existence during the days of English and later American colonization. Finally, after the bow's replacement by firearms as a weapon of war, archery became a favored sport, thus securing its continuous practice throughout history. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, archery's importance as a cultural advance ranks with the development of speed and the art of making fire. The use of the bow appears in folklore from over 3000 years ago, although its invention probably predates that era.
NZ Summer Olympic History NZ Summer olympic history. 1908, For the 1908 Games in London and the 1912 Ian Ballinger won a bronze in the smallbore rifle shooting and Mike Ryan a http://www.olympic.org.nz/Article.aspx?ID=343
Ireland.com / Today / Sport / Olympics 2004 shooting will have 17 olympic titles on offer, although this number will be far the most successful shooting nation in olympic history and medal winners http://www.ireland.com/sports/olympics2004/olympic_sports/shooting.htm
Extractions: September 26, 2005 Take me to... TODAY The Irish Times Breaking News Sports Business Technology The Ticket Weather Crosswords Sudoku Archive Search CLASSIFIEDS Jobs Property Motors SERVICES Ancestors Dating Email Explore Ireland Mobile Personal Notices Photosales Training Travel Shopping Prices THE IRISH TIMES BREAKING NEWS NEWS IN FOCUS SPORT ... Features NEWS POLL Does Cian O'Connor's gold for Ireland in the show jumping final make up for an otherwise disappointing Irish team performance? Yes No Shooting Sport-by-Sport Guide Choose sport... Archery Athletics Aquatics Badminton Baseball Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Football Gymnastics Handball Hockey Judo Modern Pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Softball Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling Brush up on your Games knowledge and read about the main contenders in our sport-by-sport guide Notes for Novices Five Facts Full Schedule Overview Shooting will have 17 Olympic titles on offer, although this number will be reduced by two in Beijing, and the first gold of the whole Athens Games will probably be awarded in the women's air rifle. The United States is by far the most successful shooting nation in Olympic history and medal winners are often much older than in other sports.
Stdin: [sixties-l] Olympic History sixtiesl olympic history. From Ron Jacobs (rjacobs@zoo.uvm.edu) racist copshooting at a black cat in Harlem. He was shooting on the http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/1496.html
Archery History They used a tactic of shooting with their upper half of the body facing Unfortunately, popularity was one of the weaker sides of olympic archery. http://library.thinkquest.org/27344/history.htm
Extractions: Simply stated, the bow is a stringed projectile weapon designed to shoot arrows. It consists of a slender stave (the bow-stick) and a cord fastened to it at each end under a certain amount of tension. By drawing the string and the arrow back until the stave is bent, and then releasing the string, the impelling force of the bowstring shoots the arrow5. Though it sounds easy, many bows require as much as hundreds of pounds of force to bend the bow sufficiently and then incredible marksmanship to make the arrow fly true.
Summer Olympics shooting. olympic history abounds with tales of athletes who overcame cripplingadversity to win gold medals, but Karoly Takacs comeback may be the best. http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0214546/solympics.html
Extractions: Aquatics 1896 Aquatics had included a lot of weird events like underwater swimming (1900), 200m obstacle swimming (1900) and a plunge for distance (1904). there were a 100m pool was used, the ocean (1896, the River Seine (1900), and a small lake in St. Louis, USA (1904), had been used in Olympic sites. Decisions or goals were clear: the rules for swimming, diving, and water polo were to be standard; to keep the world records listed. Archery 1900 Yes, archers today honor the fabled outlaw Robin Hood. The word "Robin Hood" now means splitting the shaft of an arrow alreadin in the target with another arrow. A Standard bow is coated in fibreglass, the arrows are made out of aluminium and carbon graphite and can go more than 240 km/h. Archers today compete in trying to get their arrow closest to the center of the target. Athletics 1896 Athletics have an Olympic motto, "Citius, Altius, Forius", which means faster, higher, stronger. Athletics (or track and field) is about jumping higher, throwing farther, and running faster than the other players. The ancient Olympics started with foot races. Today, athetics stays one of the most popular Olympic sports. From the 100m dash to the 42.195km marathon, from the hammer throw to the high jump. Badminton 1992 Badminton is like tennis because players stand across a net from each other and hit something across the net with rackets. In badminton the net is lowered, and they use a shuttlecock instead of a tennis ball, and it is never to hit the ground, or the other team gets a point.
NRA JUNIOR OLYMPIC SHOOTING PROGRAM NRA JUNIOR olympic shooting PROGRAM,Sponsored ResultsPortaBote Portable, Home - Forum - Login - Help history of the 4-H shooting Sports Program quick http://www.gunmuse.com/More/NRA Junior Olympic Shooting Program
Extractions: Home Login Forum Banner Exchange ... Help aid = 2; count = 5; width = 300; height = 250; title = "GunMuse Outdoors"; keyword = "Rifles"; background = "FFFFFF"; color = ""; linkColor = "0000ff"; borderColor = "0000ff"; titleColor = "ffffff"; titlebg = "000000"; Sponsored Results pyramydair.com directv.com Unique folding, portable hunting boats fold to 4 inches (10 cm) flat. Ideal for the hunting, fishingand camping enthusiast who lacks the space to store or transport an ordinary boat. porta-bote.com Home - Forum - Login - Help History of the 4-H Shooting Sports Program quick tips Install our Registry Tweak and your support for GunMuse becomes a silent and on going fight. Click Here to Support Us http://www.gunmuse.com/Main/Firearm%20History/History%20of%20the%204-H%20Shooting%20Sports%20Program Home - Forum - Login - Help History of the 4-H Shooting Sports Program quick tips Outdoor sportsmen and women in the U.S. contribute more than $1.5 Billion each year to wildlife and conservation effor http://www.aagunsales.com/Main/Firearm%20History/History%20of%20the%204-H%20Shooting%20Sports%20Program
Extractions: SHOOTING By Sport. Archery Badminton Basketball Canoe/Kayaking Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Gymnastics Judo Modern Pent. Paralympics Rowing Sailing Shooting Softball Swimming Table Tennis Tae Kwon Do Tennis Triathlon Trampoline Volleyball Water polo Weight Lifting Wheelchair Bball Windsurfing Wrestling Who has Qualified The Way to Sydney Olympic History New Sports ... Back to CAAWS Nattrass goes great guns
Modern Olympic History - Olympics - Sports - Webindia123.com Modern history of Olympics. 18961952. 1896 Athens, Greece Pole vaulting,sprints, shot put, weight lifting, swimming, cycling, target shooting, tennis, http://www.webindia123.com/sports/olymp/olymp.htm
Extractions: Yellow Pages E-Mail E-Cards Matrimonial ... Athens 2004 Modern History of Olympics 1896 Athens, Greece Venue Athens , Greece (GRE) Opening Date 06 April 1896 Nations Participated Athletes Events Winner USA with 20 points Medals First Second Third USA Greece Germany Medal The very first modern Olympic Games were held in the first week of April 1896 at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. The people of Athens greeted the Games with great enthusiasm. Pole vaulting, sprints, shot put, weight lifting, swimming, cycling, target shooting, tennis, marathon and gymnastics were all events at the first Olympics. The swimming events were held in the Bay of Zea in the Aegean Sea. The American James Connolly won the triple jump to become the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years. Winners were awarded a silver medal and a crown of olive branches. 1900 Paris, France Venue Paris, France Opening Date 14 May 1900 Nations Participated Athletes Events Winner France with 100 Points Medals First Second Third France USA Great Britain Medal The Games of 1900 were held in Paris as part of the Exposition Universelle Internationale - the Paris Worlds Fair. The years Olympics were poorly organized and poorly publicized, because of the fair. It was in this Olympic Games that women first participated as contestants. The first female champion was in tennis, Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain. In athletics, different nations competed on the same team in five categories.
Brief History Of The Olympic Games Brief history of the olympic Games. Ancient olympic Games Chronology of athletic based upon five military skillsfencing, riding, running, shooting, http://www.nostos.com/olympics/
Extractions: Brief History of the Olympic Games Ancient Olympic Games The Olympic Games begun at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC. The Greek calendar was based on the Olympiad, the four-year period between games. The games were staged in the wooded valley of Olympia in Elis. Here the Greeks erected statues and built temples in a grove dedicated to Zeus, supreme among the gods. The greatest shrine was an ivory and gold statue of Zeus. Created by the sculptor Phidias, it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Scholars have speculated that the games in 776 BC were not the first games, but rather the first games held after they were organized into festivals held every four years as a result of a peace agreement between the city-states of Elis and Pisa. The Eleans traced the founding of the Olympic games to their King Iphitos, who was told by the Delphi Oracle to plant the olive tree from which the victors' wreaths were made. According to Hippias of Elis, who compiled a list of Olympic victors c.400 BC, at first the only Olympic event was a 200-yard dash, called a stadium. This was the only event until 724 BC, when a two-stadia race was added. Two years later the 24-stadia event began, and in 708 the pentathlon was added and wrestling became part of the games. This pentathlon, a five-event match consisted of running, wrestling, leaping, throwing the discus, and hurling the javelin. In time boxing, a chariot race, and other events were included.
Press Release Redgrave rows into olympic history and athlete Backley adds to Team GB medal haul Ian Peel olympic Trap (shooting). Jason Queally, Chris Hoy, http://www.olympics.org.uk/press/pressdetail.asp?boa_press_id=27
Extractions: Summer Team Sites Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Judo Karate Pentathlon Racquetball Roller Sports Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Squash Swimming Synchro. Table Tennis Taekwondo Team Handball Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Water Skiing Weightlifting Wrestling Winter Team Sites Biathlon Bobsled Curling Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Short Track Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding Speedskating U.S. Olympic Sites U.S. Olympic Fan Club Free eNewsletter U.S. Olympic Shop U.S. Paralympics Olympians on TV Photo Galleries Sports Jobs Ask an Olympian USOC Pressbox Athletes Events Sports Features ... 2004 games BIATHLON - US Men 15th in Olympic Biathlon Relay // by Jerry Kokesh - U.S. Biathlon Association (802-654-7833) // February 20, 2002 The final biathlon competition of the Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games found the US Men's 4 X 7.5K Relay team in 15th place out of 19 teams at the Soldier Hollow finish line today. On a day with wet, heavy snow falling, all of the athletes struggled on the course, but the US men also lost their shooting touch. They needed 18 extra shots to complete the race and incurred 2 penalties. Jeremy Teela, of Anchorage, AK led off in a relay competition for the first time in his career. Admitting that he was "nervous," Teela needed all 3 extra rounds to clean prone. He then skied himself back into the race, but used the 3 extra rounds and incurred 1 penalty. He said that the skiing was "OK, because we have all of the right skis and were prepared for the new snow. But I really hated to miss that standing shot."
Making An Olympian Impact Wu Xiaoxuan became the first female olympic champion in China s history, breakingthe olympic record of women s small standard pistol in three shooting http://www.china.org.cn/english/sports/102605.htm
Xu Haifeng In 1982, Xu enrolled in the provincial shooting team of Anhui, and two years later in XU Haifeng, the creator of the countrys history of olympic golds, http://en.beijing-2008.org/09/11/article211621109.shtml
MODERN PENTATHLON The early olympic history of the Modern Pentathlon was dominated by Sweden. Modern Pentathlon comprising the disciplines of shooting, fencing, riding, http://abc.net.au/olympics_1996/modpent.htm
Extractions: Olympic Trivia Modern Pentathlon is the most drastically restructured of all the events at the Atlanta Olympics. The traditional five-day event, catering for riding, fencing, shooting, swimming and running, has been severely restricted in size and reduced to a one-day competition. And for these Olympic Games at least there will be no teams event. Only 32 athletes will be allowed to compete, on the basis of strict selection guidelines. Australia has no athletes who qualify on merit, but will profit from the guarantee of one competitor from each of the five Continents. It is almost a matter of course that the representative from Oceania will be an Australian. The onus on the Australian Pentathlon Union to select a representative is very difficult, as athletes competing in lesser competitions can amass higher scores in some cases than athletes competing in elite competitions like the Olympic qualifiers. The two front runners for Australian selection were 24-year-old ex-Canberran Alex Johnson and 25-year-old Paul Christensen of Queensland.
HISTORY The Andorran olympic Committee (COA) was created in April 1971 and its bylaws while other sports developed progressively, such as football, shooting, http://www.eurolympic.org/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/301?language=fra
