Olymic Shooting Idiocy(Comments RSS)
The London Olympic organisers have decided (dumbly, let face it) to build and then demolish a shooting facility at Woolwich, instead of using the National Shooting Centre at Bisley.
It's a dumb thing to do and without a shadow of doubt the decision was entirely political, rather than remotely sports related.
Olympic shooting disciplines only include Air-Rifle, Air-Pistol, Small Bore Pistol, Small Bore Rifle and Shotgun, at various distances and formats. Bisley is already fitted out for all these types of shooting, because it hosted the shooting sports for the Manchester Commonwealth games a few years ago.
However, this VERY small list of the available shooting disciplines is all catered for at Bisley in perhaps less than 5% of the overall acreage of the site. This means that although Bisley would be a far superior, and far cheaper venue to host the Olympic shooting, the money would only be spent in a relatively small space. Indeed, it is hard to see where the estimated £29m would be spent in actual tangible benefit to the site as a whole.
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