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Meet Target Sprint, a game that needs to be brought over to the States

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The International Shooting Sport Federation held the first world championship summer biathlon event last month, combining running and rifle target shooting.

The event, held in Suhl, Germany, and referred to officially by the ISSF as Target Sprint, makes competitors run a 400m track, then take their rifle from a storage rack and shoot at five falling targets from a 10m standing position with a time penalty for each missed shot. The athlete then repeats the lap and shoots again, followed by another lap to the finish line.

The Germans swept the event, which is aimed at more physically active competitors and getting youth into the shooting discipline. There were no American entries. In my opinion, the NSSF, CMP, 4-H, JROTC, Boy Scouts, and every other youth shooting sports organization needs to start howling for this is the States.

Get these kids off the couch.

Hope you aren’t a fan of the 50m Prone Rifle and Pistol events in the Olympics

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Moving towards being “more youthful, more urban, and more women” the International Olympic Committee approved a host of changes to the shooting sports for the upcoming Tokyo Games.

The group last week announced they agreed with changes proposed by the International Shooting Sports Federation, the governing body for Olympic-style shooting, that aims toward a larger goal to boost female participation while appealing to more youth.

The IOC will remove the current Men’s Double Trap, Men’s 50m Rifle Prone, and Men’s 50m Pistol events to make room for new ones.

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Shooting sports events at Modern Olympics since 1896 zapped

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American Sumner Paine picked up the first Olympic Gold Medal in Free Pistol at the 1896 Athens Olympics. The event will likely be cashiered in 2020.

American Sumner Paine picked up the first Olympic Gold Medal in Free Pistol at the 1896 Athens Olympics. The event will likely be cashiered in 2020.

The International Shooting Sports Federation, the governing body for Olympic-style shooting, has recommended a host of changes that could see more gender equality in the Tokyo games.

The ISSF Administrative Council, meeting in New Delhi, India last month, unanimously approved a plan to meet Olympic recommendations to stimulate women’s participation and involvement in sport by creating more participation opportunities at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.

The upside of the plan: create new Trap Mixed Gender Team, 10m Air Rifle Mixed Gender Team, and 10m Air Pistol Mixed Gender Team events.

The downside: to make room it would remove the current Men’s Double Trap, Men’s 50m Rifle Prone, and Men’s 50m Pistol events.

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