Lord Bilimoria (CB):...However, a solution for the shooting events
still needs to be found. This is supported by the Minister for
Youth Affairs and Sports in India, Kiren Rijiju, the president of
the National Rifle Association of India and the vice-president of
the International Shooting Sport Federation, His Highness Crown
Prince Raninder Singh of Patiala, the secretary of the India
Olympic Association, Rajeev Mehta, and the IOA president, Narinder
Batra, who are all very keen to see...Request free trial
(CB):...However, a solution
for the shooting events still needs to be found. This is supported
by the Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in India, Kiren
Rijiju, the president of the National Rifle Association of India
and the vice-president of the International Shooting Sport
Federation, His Highness Crown Prince Raninder Singh of Patiala,
the secretary of the India Olympic Association, Rajeev Mehta, and
the IOA president, Narinder Batra, who are all very keen to see
shooting be included in the Games. The host country, the
UK—comprising England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland—wins
lots of medals in shooting events. The sport
enables smaller countries and territories such as
the Falkland Islands to participate in
the Games at all. Moreover, shooting is a sport that encompasses
all ages, from teenagers to senior middle-aged people, and it is
gender inclusive...
...Shooting is important to India—more than 25% of medals won by
India in previous Commonwealth Games have been in shooting—but, as
I have mentioned, it is similarly important, for a number of
reasons, for the medal tallies of many other countries, including
us here in the United Kingdom. From an accessibility point of view,
shooting is one of the handful of highest-participation sports in
the Commonwealth Games. As I said earlier, it enables tiny
countries such as the Falkland Islands to participate in the
Games and is also inclusive in that men and women compete in mixed
competitions and in the age spectrum, from teenagers to middle-aged
participants...
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