Croatia to stage combined European Shooting Championships ahead of Tokyo 2020 Saturday, 16 January 2021
Shooters aiming to compete in the 10-metre air rifle and 10m air pistol disciplines at Tokyo 2020 have been handed a lifeline after Croatia agreed to merge two events into one European Shooting Championships.
Lohja in Finland was originally scheduled to host the European 10-metre Championships in rifle, pistol and running target from February 26 to March 6 only for the coronavirus pandemic to force those plans to be altered.
But the Croatian Shooting Federation has stepped into the breach, offering to stage the competition in Osikej alongside the European Championships in shotgun, 25m pistol and 50m rifle.
ISSF waives membership fees in 2021 due to impact of COVID-19 crisis Saturday, 2 January 2021
The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) has waived membership fees for its National Federations this year in response to the coronavirus crisis.
The Administrative Council of the ISSF decided to scrap the $500 (£366/€412) fee in 2021 due to the unprecedented situation amid the 2020 pandemic , which has caused significant financial issues across sport.
The ISSF is one of the few Olympic International Federations able to forego such income as its President, billionaire Vladimir Lisin, is one of Russia s richest men.
Members of the ISSF agreed to lower the fee by a two-thirds from $1,500 (£1,100/€1,200) under a series of constitution changes approved in December 2019.
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FIBA: No Protocol Issues For NBA Players in Tokyo - Federation Focus 12/16/20
(ATR) NBA players arriving at the last minute to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics should not face any delays in joining their teams due to Covid-19 protocols.
FIBA secretary general Andreas Zagklis during virtual roundtable on Dec. 16.
In answer to a question from
Around the Rings, International Basketball Federation (FIBA) secretary general Andreas Zagklis said during a virtual roundtable on Wednesday that the NBA’s already strict protocols would be “compatible” to the countermeasures that will be in place in Tokyo.
“The professional players… come from an environment of if not full but relative isolation with almost daily testing so the national teams are not receiving the players from a totally unprotected environment,” Zagklis says.
It is quite a feat if you stop to think about it.
We are now six years out from the eruption of the Russian doping scandal, one of the most outrageous such episodes in sporting history, and yet this vast, mysterious, much misunderstood territory s pursuit of soft power through sport seems scarcely to have paused for breath.
This was underlined last week when Umar Kremlev was elected President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA).
This means Russians head up three of the 28 Summer Olympic International Sports Federations (IFs); a quick glance down the list confirms that this will soon be more than any other country.