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Old 08-12-2008, 04:37 PM
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Re: Paintball as an Olympic Sport

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Originally Posted by Lord Odin
I found this article about Paintball and the Olympics.

Rob Rubin’s Tyger’s Den - SPLAT Magazine Blogs

He mentions " International Olympic Committee, has guidelines on what is, and is not, an olympic sport. They change the rules recently, but the basics are that sports must focus on athletics, and not on technology."

and

"the IOC frowns on technology performing for the athlete, including ramping or assisted shooting."

To that I enter the following picture as "evidence" in the 10m Women's Air Rifle event, that the IOC isn't frowning on EVERY sport.....




What happend to a good old fashioned Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle .... with a Compass in the stock and thing which tells time?.
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