Is this where we are heading?

Sikamick

Sparks wrote: »

You might leave political correctness to the idiot media, but the idiot media are the ones who've just gotten the Minister to say he'll ban your pistols.

Your sport's participants do not make up a majority in the electorate; You don't have legal rights to own the equipment involved (yes, property rights are seperate from possession and use, but even if you buy one without worrying about licences, you couldn't import or possess it, and you'd still be subject to other laws); And any sport that ignores PR is dead on its feet from a funding point of view and in our case will be actively stamped out because it sells papers to decry things.

In other words, learn to box clever or lose your sport. Your choice, do as you will.

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Discontinued Olympic Shooting Events:

Shooting was a popular pastime in the early 1900s, and there have been quite a few different shooting sports incorporated into the Olympic program. Here are a few of the more interesting ones.

Live Pigeon Shooting — the only time animals were killed as part of the Olympic Games

Other discontinued shooting events held between 1896 and 1936 include Army Gun, Running Deer, Military Rifle.

+ + + how many more will go.

In my opinion removed because of the Effect of PC.

Sikamick

Sparks

I think those were removed more because events in the early years of the modern olympics were changed with every games. In recent years though, we've lost events like 300m rifle and 25m fullbore pistol; and that's because in recent years modern events have come under enormous pressure to appeal to the lowest common denominator of ADD-suffering couch potato TV addicts - hence beach volleyball, head-to-head archery matches, 10-shot finals in target shooting, etc, etc, etc. Some events can't make the transition, so they're dropped. Remember, groups like NBC have paid billions of dollars for the Olympic TV rights (and when NBC's contract runs out after 2012, that amount will probably rise).

rrpc

In addition to the ones Mick and Sparks have mentioned: the 1000 yard rifle match held in 1908 only and won by an Irishman, the team events in 1000 yard and 300 meters and all the running target matches, the last of which was dropped after Athens.

Nodin

Sparks wrote: »

I think those were removed more because events in the early years of the modern olympics were changed with every games. In recent years though, we've lost events like 300m rifle and 25m fullbore pistol; and that's because in recent years modern events have come under enormous pressure to appeal to the lowest common denominator of ADD-suffering couch potato TV addicts - hence beach volleyball, head-to-head archery matches, 10-shot finals in target shooting, etc, etc, etc. Some events can't make the transition, so they're dropped. Remember, groups like NBC have paid billions of dollars for the Olympic TV rights (and when NBC's contract runs out after 2012, that amount will probably rise).

Indeed, the joint bid from Europe (including RTE and the Beeb) was rejected there yesterday or the day before.....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/dec/03/olympics-2012-bbc-itv-sky

Of course the big question is how the f/uck synchronised swimming got back in, in it's current form......my suggestion for the addition of animal blood and sharks into the pool didn't get much of a response.