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    Jul 25, 2019 5 minutes

    BIRMINGHAM 2022 SNUBS SHOOTING

    Prominent nations are considering a boycott of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham after it confirmed that shooting will not be a part of its programme.

    After hearing representations from five sports not originally included, Birmingham 2022 organisers have opted to add women’s cricket, beach volleyball and para table table tennis to the line-up but exclude shooting and archery – a move already ratified by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).

    Since plans for the Games were initially released in 2017, shooting had made a number of attempts to get restored to the programme, centring on the use of Bisley as a venue. According to British Shooting, the ISSF had even offered “to contribute to the costs” of renovating Bisley for use in 2022.

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