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Updated training opportunities offered by the German Shooting Sport Federation to teams and athletes participating in the 2010 ISSF World Championship in Munich. Training Centres, Clubs, Reservation details and contacts have been updated.

The 50th ISSF World Championship in all events will take place at the 1972 Olympic Shooting Range of Munich, Germany, from the 29th of July through the 11th of August.

The World Championship is going to be the most important competition of the 2010 season, with more than 2300 shooters participating. The Championship is regarded as an important step on the road to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, as the first Olympic Quota Places will be awarded during the event.

The German Shooting Sport Federation is offering the special training opportunities for teams participating in the World Championship, and will provide several training spots in Germany to those athletes willing to get used to possible time differences and to the climate conditions in Germany. Athletes and team are now able to book training sessions at the National Olympic Training Centre of the German Shooting Sport Federation in Wiesbaden or at other Regional Training Centres in Germany. All shooting sport facilities offered by the German Shooting Federation as training spots are provided with international standard.

The German Shooting Sport Federation informs that reservations should be done directly by getting in contact with the training centres.

AVAILABLE TRAINING CENTRES (information provided by the German Shooting Sport Federation)

1 – National Olympic Training Centre of the German Shooting Sport Federation

2 – Regional Training Centre of Westfalia

3 – Regional Training Centre in Brandenburg

4 – Regional Training Centre of Lower Saxony

5 – Regional Training Centre of Baden Württenberg

6 – Regional Training Centre of Thüringen

7 – Regional Training Centre of Bavaria East

8 – Local Training Centre Munich (Shooting Club ‘Hauptschuetzengesellschaft München’)

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How to combine education, training, competition, day life and an elite sport career? The IOC answers by launching the new Athlete Career Programme section of its website: www.olympic.org/iocacp

Since a few years, the International Olympic Committee has been investing on athletes by promoting the “IOC Athlete Career Programme”, in close cooperation with the Adecco company. The programme, focusing on education, life skills and employment, was developed also following the advice of top athletes, coaches and National Olympic Committees leaders.

Nowadays, more than 5000 athletes have benefitted from the Programme, and the IOC moved a step forward by launching a brand-new section of its website, at www.olympic.org/iocacp .

The page offers practical information, videos of athletes, various tips, news and a glossary, as well as a planning tool by day/month/year, a quiz and an interactive section. A questionnaire helps atletes to identify the various challenges to be faced during their sports career, also focusing on the post-athletic transitino.

“Just as a sports project is built day after day, a life project should be established as early as possible,” said Frank Fredericks, Chairman of the IOC Athletes’ Commission and four-time Olympic silver medallist, commenting on the IOC Athlete Career Programme.

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Draft minutes from the 2009 ISSF Technical and Rifle Committees meetings on 08/09 November 2009 were recently posted on the Internet without authorization. Unfortunately, this posting made no attempt to explain any of the reasons for these proposals. This premature and incomplete posting created confusion and led to much discussion among shooters, trainers and equipment manufacturers. The ISSF is releasing this statement to give everyone concerned a full explanation and explain actions that will be taken regarding rifle shooter clothing in 2010.

First, the minutes from the 2009 ISSF Technical and Rifle Committees meetings contain only discussion topics and recommendations. ISSF Rules do not change until the ISSF Administrative Council approves changes and nothing in those minutes has been approved.   Second, those minutes contain preliminary proposals designed to address some serious rifle shooter clothing problems that developed in the last year.  The ISSF Technical and Rifle Committee expressed its opinion that some recently introduced shooter clothing was made of materials that could violate current stiffness rules. When a new model of shooting trousers stand up by themselves and do not collapse even after substantial pressure is placed on them, there is reasonable cause to doubt that this equipment complies with the ISSF Rules and Regulations.  When trouser seat pads become back supports, it is reasonable to issue new rule interpretations.  When IOC members ask critical questions about why elite shooter-athletes cannot walk normally, their questions must be taken seriously.  Stiffer clothing designed to provide increased support violates IOC rules prohibiting the artificial enhancement of athlete performance and ISSF rules prohibiting artificial support.

Continued efforts by manufacturers to produce rifle clothing that is less flexible than clothing currently approved and used by shooters can be similar to the “technological doping” that FINA (international swimming federation) fought last summer when it banned a whole series of new swimwear that had been worn by swimmers who totally rewrote their list of world records.  The ISSF would be abandoning its responsibility to our sport and its athletes if we do not act to control similar developments in shooting.

The ISSF has worked hard since 2005 to control rifle clothing stiffness and flexibility through stricter and more consistent equipment control testing.  The ISSF Athletes Commission and many athletes have applauded how this makes it possible for all shooters to have clothing that is relatively equal.  The ISSF and its athletes surely do not want to return to the unfair situation that sometimes occurred before that date when inconsistent enforcement and artificial manipulation of jackets and trousers (heat, etc.) allowed some shooters to compete with clothing that provided more support than clothing used by shooters who complied fully with the rules.

As part of its continuing efforts to keep all rifle shooter clothing sufficiently flexible to comply with ISSF rules and equal for all competitors, the ISSF will follow this plan of action during 2010:

1.   The most recent proposals of the ISSF Rifle and Technical Committees will be carefully studied and discussed by several groups within the ISSF before any final proposals are developed for presentation to the Administrative Council.  The opinions of athletes, trainers and manufacturers will of course be considered.

2.   ISSF Equipment Control Juries at 2010 World Cups and the 2010 World Championship will continue their strict enforcement of ISSF rules regarding clothing thickness, stiffness and flexibility.  Specially trained experts in these control procedures will chair all 2010 Equipment Control Juries.  Rule 6.6.3 gives ISSF Equipment Control Juries full authority to apply the flexibility standards of Rule 6.4.2.1.1 (must not immobilize or unduly reduce the movement of the shooter’s legs, body or arms) to determine whether all rifle clothing complies with the “spirit and intent” of that rule.

3.   ISSF Rule 7.4.7.8.2.3 regarding the height of the seat patch reinforcement states, The seat patch…vertical measurement must not be longer than to cover the normal wear points on the seat of the wearer. Starting in 2010, ISSF Equipment Control Juries will interpret this rule to mean that “normal wear points” are determined when shooting trousers are fully closed and the shooter is sitting.  This means that any pad or reinforcement placed directly below the waistband is illegal and must be removed.

4.   There is a concern that rifle shooting boots are becoming stiffer and less flexible.  As one way to check shooting boot flexibility, shooters may be asked by Equipment Control or Rifle Juries to walk normally with their jackets, trousers and boots on and fully closed or laced to demonstrate that their boots are flexible.  “Walk normally” means the knees must bend, the heels must strike the floor first and then visibly rise from the floor before the toes are lifted.

5.   A meeting of the ISSF Special Commission on Rifle Shooter Clothing will be organized in December 2010 to evaluate all aspects of rifle shooter clothing and prepare possible recommendations for future changes in ISSF rules or inspection procedures.  This meeting will include members of the ISSF Executive Committee, Administrative Council and the Technical and Rifle Committees.  Representatives of athletes, coaches and manufacturers will be invited to participate in this meeting.

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The first ISSF D – Coaches course was held in Bar, Montenegro.

Thirty-two participants coming from six countries took part in the ISSF D – Coaches Test Course that was held in Bar, Montenegro, the first week of February. The course was conducted in the regional language of the country where it took place, and it was organized as a first test event for a possible future developement of the existing ISSF Coaches certification system, aiming to improve the knowledge of the ISSF coaching programs on a regional level. The  D-class course, in the intention of this Test, represents the first step to participate in ISSF C-class courses, which is still the first level of ISSF licensed coaches system (C – B – A licenses).

Montenegro’s highest authorities were present at the Course opening. The event was inaugurated by Montenegro’s President, Mr Dragan Samardzic, while the Town Major of Bar, Mr Zarko Pavicevic, welcomed the participants and met the delegation in an official reception.

The President of the Slovenian Shooting Federation, Gorazd Maloic, the Croatian National coaches Sinisa Vitez, Macedonian National coach Stevan Krsteski and BiH National Coach Amir Dautovic, along with Zarko Djurisic, conducted the Course under the guidance of Mr Zeljko Todorovic, lecturer for Pistol events of the ISSF Training Academy, assisted by Mr Goran Maksimovic, an Air Rifle Olympic Champion and certificated ISSF  A-coach.

Mr. Tomislav Sepec, the Chairman of the ISSF Rifle Committee, visited the Course on the last day, closing the event with Bar’s Vice-Major Dragan Simovic, who delivered the graduation certificates to the participants. All of them successfully completed the final exam with excellent results.

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