From: "bob blake", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The reason there are no GB Pistol shooters in the Olympics has little to do
with the ban, but everything to do with standards. A country does not just
select and send shooters to the Games, Quota places have to be earned in
world level events (World Cup, World Champs, European Champs, Asia Games
etc.).
As a measure of GB pistol standards post the ban:
1996 Atlanta: One GB Pistol shooter, Carol Page (Sport Pistol) attended and
was selected using, I think, either a quota place won by Mick Gault, or a
wild card quota place.
1992 Barcelona: One GB Pistol shooter, Guernsey's Adrian Breton attended
(Rapid Fire) and was selected using a quota place won by John Rolfe (Rapid
Fire).
The NSRA have effectively disbanded the cartridge pistol squads, I suspect,
to protect their rifle interests from funding removal, yet there are still
four of the seven home countries with pistols (Northern Ireland, Jersey,
Guernsey and IOM). Far from the government being wholly to blame, I would
suggest that the governing body needs to do it's job properly.
As a matter of interest, Carol Page started her shooting career in Jersey,
along with Guernsey's Adrian Breton, this gives a strong Channel Island
connection to GB's Olympic Pistol shooters for the last decade, what is the
sport's governing body doing for the Channel Islands shooters now?
Keep up the good work
Bob Blake
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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