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Sparks · 2008-08-01 21:14:32

A couple of days ago, I got asked about how the NTSA picked the Irish Team going to international matches. After explaining it, I realised it was something I hadn't written a user guide for before (and which I should have), so I wrote it up this evening. Figured I'd mention it here in case anyone was interested, what with…

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Selection for International events (NTSA)

01-08-2008 9:14pm

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A couple of days ago, I got asked about how the NTSA picked the Irish Team going to international matches. After explaining it, I realised it was something I hadn't written a user guide for before (and which I should have), so I wrote it up this evening. Figured I'd mention it here in case anyone was interested, what with Beijing coming up and all.

On the WTSC website:

Selection for International Teams
Written by Mark Dennehy
Friday, 01 August 2008 20:57

Picking a person or a team to represent your country at an international event is a pretty major thing, and as we'll see in the coming month with the Beijing Games, it's something that matters even to those not involved in the sport. I got asked recently how this process works for target shooting, and I realised there wasn't any clear explanation of this written up on the web yet, so I've written this one. But before I lay out the steps, let me lay out the thinking behind them.

The philosophy behind the process is not so much simple as fundamental. We want to:
be fair

send the best shooters to represent their country

and not to fall on our collective asses when we do go abroad to represent Ireland.

(Yeah, about the "asses" bit, I was slightly less than formal when writing it in an effort to be easy to read. Sorry if it seems untoward.)

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