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Derek Burnett doing well in qualifications
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14-08-2004 2:23pm#1Derek Burnett, Ireland's Olympic Trap shooter in Athens, is doing as well as we expected he would in Athens, despite a low score in the today's last qualifying string. He's currently sitting in joint ninth place with Australian Michael Diamond who won the gold in Sydney, and well ahead of UK's Ian Peel who took silver in Sydney.
The results so far show the story - Italian shooter Giovanni Pellielo in the lead on 74 and Russian Alexei Alipov is behind only on countback on 74 as well. There are six shooters on 73 and then seven shooters including Derek are tied on 72 for ninth place. Two more strings to go tomorrow at 0800 our time, and Derek is once more squadded with Michael Diamond and Ian Peel.0
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red vex wrote:well done derek. its a pity about that 23 on the first day. he missed a dirty bird and he also missed his retake after a no bird. its a cruel sport
Didn't qualfy in round 2
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Flukey wrote:Having a "shooting" forum could have all sorts of connotations.
Better to leave it in the general sports forum where it now resides.
Or have a "Target Shooting" forum instead of a "Guns'n'ammo" forum...0 -
Maybe, but with all due respect, it is not a kind of sport that would deserve its own forum, like Racing, Golf, Soccer or GAA. Maybe the Archery forum could be renamed to incorporate it as they are both target sports. We are already locked out of the Soccer forum for some reason
, so would we need a gun license to get into that forum? 0 -
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Flukey wrote:Maybe, but with all due respect, it is not a kind of sport that would deserve its own forum, like Racing, Golf, Soccer or GAA.
Rot.
Believe it or not, there are more people who shoot in this country (there are 230,000 firearms licences in this country, and somewhere around the 100,000 mark in the North) than there are people who play GAA football or Soccer. And if Golf gets a forum, Target Shooting not getting a forum is simply, to borrow an idealistic word, unfair, especially when Golf is the closest sport out there to Target Shooting.Maybe the Archery forum could be renamed to incorporate it as they are both target sports.
Why? Does it cost far more in resources to have a seperate forum for Shooting? (Seriously, is it one database per forum with vBulletin?).
I mean, why not have one forum for Soccer, Rugby and GAA? They all use balls and play on fields with goalposts...would we need a gun license to get into that forum?
No, but you would need to moderate out the nutjobs.
(Which doesn't mean taking the mick out of someone who asks a genuine question when they don't know the answer, even if they do try to phrase the question like a Tom Clancy novel...)0 -
Flukey wrote:Well I am sure they could put up a temporary Olympics forum.
That was asked for and nixed:
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=179437I think the shooting fans would be looking for a more long term home for their sport though.
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Well I have no objections to a Shooting forum. I can't say I'd have any interest in visiting it, but I won't complain if one is put up. Not my thing, although I once did go clay pigeon shooting. GAA, as you will have noticed by now, is my thing, so shooting for points and goals is what I like to see!
There is nothing like being in Croke Park, amongst over 60,000 people, as I was twice this weekend and as I intend to be over the coming weeks as the two major Championships reach their climax! 0 -
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