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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #30 on: May 13, 2004, 06:19:28 PM »
My favorite all time former Olympic sport.......

Live Pigeon Shooting.

Held only during the 1900 Paris Games.
Leon de Lunden of Begium killed 21 birds to edge out Maurice Faure of France by one dead pigeon to win the gold.

WTG Leon!
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« Reply #31 on: May 13, 2004, 06:26:19 PM »
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My favorite all time former Olympic sport.......

Live Pigeon Shooting.




  If they would switch to Canadian Geese they could hold the match right up my street.  

   BTW,  while I can't prove it on short notice, I'm pretty sure the United States has won more Olympic Gold Metals in Small Bore Pistol shooting than in any other sport.  Of course you'll never see that on network TV.
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« Reply #32 on: May 13, 2004, 06:34:25 PM »
There are 3 pistol events in the modern Olympics:

Rapid Fire
Free Pistol
Air Pistol (since 1984 I think)

No such thing as small bore pistol. There is a small bore rifle competition though.
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« Reply #33 on: May 13, 2004, 07:14:54 PM »
Well....this happen in Chechnya a few days ago.


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GROZNY, Chechnya (CNN) -- Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov and at least five others died in an explosion at a stadium in the Chechen capital, officials said. A spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry said that the bomb may have been buried in concrete as many as three months ago while the stadium was undergoing a renovation.


Not possible in Greece?
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« Reply #34 on: May 13, 2004, 07:27:27 PM »
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There are 3 pistol events in the modern Olympics:

Rapid Fire
Free Pistol
Air Pistol (since 1984 I think)

No such thing as small bore pistol. There is a small bore rifle competition though.


I don't want to labor a small point but I'm guessing the Rapid Fire and Free Pistol are .22 cal.   AKA 'small bore'.

More important, what's our record in the above.
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« Reply #35 on: May 13, 2004, 07:43:57 PM »
I did some research and found this URL:

http://www.kiat.net/olympics/history/26atlanta.html

I looks like the USA is competitive in all shooting events but does not dominate in any.  'My bad..."  :o
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« Reply #36 on: May 13, 2004, 09:12:30 PM »
I just hope NBC covers the Olympics better.  They have been looking for controversy rather than sport for so long they have lost sight of what is sport.  Do you know that some think that Kobe's trial is sport related rather than a legal issue?  They have friggin sportscasters talking about  testimony instead of the ERA of some left hander for the Astros.
 
In Seoul, NBC covered a Korean boxer who believed he got hosed in a decision so he sat in the ring for an hour or 2, and NBC covered all of it.  a commentor said something like, "He now has the Olympic record for a protest..."  great an Olympic record for doing nothing and I am getting pissed watching him do nothing and sports casters talking about him doing nothing.  All the while I knew the event I was intrested in was holding finals.

Idiots.

Now half of NBC's coverage will be about security.  Even if  nothing bad happens, Osama wins a little by causing that.
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« Reply #37 on: May 13, 2004, 09:27:31 PM »
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Do you know that some think that Kobe's trial is sport related rather than a legal issue?


Given certain other, ehm... issues... I'd say that's not much of a stretch at all.

The worst thing about NBC Olympic coverage is that it takes a trained eye to notice that there are actually other countries participating.
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« Reply #38 on: May 13, 2004, 09:36:48 PM »
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Given certain other, ehm... issues... I'd say that's not much of a stretch at all.

The worst thing about NBC Olympic coverage is that it takes a trained eye to notice that there are actually other countries participating.


The only sports related issue is whether he will miss a game due to the legal proceedings.  All else is legal, not sports.
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« Reply #39 on: May 13, 2004, 09:39:28 PM »
You missed my point. Glad ya did though... it was a real klunker.
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« Reply #40 on: May 13, 2004, 09:47:22 PM »
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You missed my point. Glad ya did though... it was a real klunker.


The word "ignored" comes to mind. :)
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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #41 on: May 13, 2004, 09:48:02 PM »
Maybe you were going for sportf***ing?
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« Reply #42 on: May 13, 2004, 09:49:19 PM »
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You missed my point. Glad ya did though... it was a real klunker.


Not really.
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« Reply #43 on: May 13, 2004, 09:54:34 PM »
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Maybe you were going for sportf***ing?


No doubt. Here were are with cards as an Olympic sport and still no sportf***ing. Wake up. Sign the petition. This is 2004.
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« Reply #44 on: May 13, 2004, 10:55:53 PM »
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There are 3 pistol events in the modern Olympics:

Rapid Fire
Free Pistol
Air Pistol (since 1984 I think)

No such thing as small bore pistol. There is a small bore rifle competition though.


Well they dont use 44mags  LOL:aok

And yes 22rimfire is smallbore.
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