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THE BIRMINGHAM 2022 FIASCO

What a muddle we’ve seen over shooting’s inclusion, or not, in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games! We were told it might be in, then it wasn’t, then it might be, then it wasn’t... and now, as you’ll see in our news pages this month, the latest suggestion is that the shooting and archery events could be held 4,000 miles away in India, months before the Games kick off in Birmingham in July 2022. And they said that Bisley was too far!

So what is actually happening with shooting at the Commonwealth Games – and why are the Games so important for shooting anyway? You need to understand that

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