What a great video, showing the Olympics but also a great video of the history of archery in the Olympics. 25 minutes of video goodness.
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Hard to believe. It’s virtually impossible to get your hands on a recurve bow in the United States without ordering through a catalog, but two competing companies are selling archery shoes. Both Nike and Adidas have a shoe for Olympic archery. Adidas has the “Adistar” archery shoe. It looks like a (very) high top cross training shoe. Nike’s contribution is more subdued with their Nike Akribis used by many archery teams. USA had a different design in mind however.
Team USA’s archery technique was so different from the rest of the competition that Nike designers built a custom shoe specifically for the Federation. The US asked for footwear that facilitates a more grounded stance, with the heel less elevated than that of the Nike Akribis. The answer was a modified version of the Nike Dunkesto, Nike’s hybrid between the iconic Dunk basketball shoe and the Nike Presto trainer. Taking the best of both shoes – Dunk’s flat sole and Nike Presto’s lightweight breathability – the Nike Dunkesto archery shoe adds customized abrasion-resistant leather vamps for each athlete, dependent upon where they rest the bow on their shoe. The colors and graphics used on the upper are also designed to compliment Team USA’s uniform. The style is Sport Red, White, and Obsidian Blue and the sockliners are decorated with tattoo-inspired detailing featuring a torch and the number “1776.”
Read more here about the Nike Akribis:
Nike Akribis (Greek for “Accurate”)
More about the Adidas Adistar:
adidas adistar Beijing Archery - Mens Cross Training Shoes
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I just found this blog, titled “My Archery Blog”. I like that. Straight and to the point. It looks like a young blog and I hope she sticks with it. Vanessa Lee is an archer from our neighbors up north, Canada. She talks about the “war” it is just to make it onto the Korean archery team. Once that’s accomplished, the pressure of the Olympics isn’t so much.
When I spoke to my coach in Korea over the phone last week, she talked about the national team trials for the 2009 World Championships and Asian Championships. Unlike the one-time deal type of trials (or two-time deal) here in Canada, there are several stages involved in Korean team trials. My coach said it’s so intense, everyone is at each other’s throats and it’s like war. At the first stage, there were over 200 archers who shot the ranking round and went into eliminations. After eliminations, only the top 32 went on to the second stage. My friend, Hye-Jin, (who I talked about in my last post) made it to the top 32! The second stage was held this past week and again, it consisted of a ranking round and eliminations. This time, only the top 13 (per gender) along with the 3 men and 3 women who went to the Olympics advance to the next stage.
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The International Archery Federation has approved the Sambadrome, where the archery competition would be held should Rio de Janeiro be selected as host city for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
The venue hosts one of Brazils’ largest cultural festivals and is one of the city’s most famous facilities.
Over three days Tom Dielen, secretary general of FITA, visited the Sambadrome and attended technical meetings with the Rio 2016 bid team. He said “it was a profitable visit. The proposed facility is well prepared and it fulfills all the necessities of the sport, and it’s located in a central region of the city. The idea to mix samba with sport is fantastic”.
Read more here:
Rio 2016 Archery Venue Approved By Federation
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The talented potential of young Colchester archer Edward Kearse has been recognised at the 2008 Essex Sport Awards.
Kearse won in the Olympic Hopeful category at the prestigious ceremony after judges marked him out as one of the county’s top young sporting stars who could feature at the London Games in 2012.
It is a huge accolade for the 15-year-old, who has surpassed all expectations in the past year.
His achievements included two appearances for England, at the Home Nations indoor tournament last December, when he took fifth place overall, and also at the 39th FITA tournament in Malta in March, when he achieved third place in the cadet category.
Edward’s father Paul Kearse said: “We are very proud of him and he is very pleased.
We’ll have to keep an eye out for Edward Kearse for the 2012 Olympics. Well done.
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Kearse collects prestigious award
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AN indomitable Moreton woman has died just months after getting out of her hospital bed to qualify for the Paralympics.
Lynne Burton, 34, needed to undergo a third liver transplant but a suitable organ could not be found, resulting in her condition deteriorating until she passed away.
She finished second in a selection shoot to qualify to represent Britain in the archery competition at Beijing’s 2008 Paralympics.
This was while she was being treated at London’s Royal Free Hospital after suffering chronic rejection of the latest of two liver transplants she underwent because of a condition she was born with.
She was too weak to self-propel her wheelchair but still shot the required eight dozen arrows.
Lynne, who had already competed in the world archery championships, was driven straight back to the hospital where she hoped to get fit for Beijing but her consultant told her she was too poorly to compete.
Read more here:
Brave Paralympian passes away
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THREE young sports stars in south Norfolk have been given cash by Norfolk County Council to help them in their careers.
London 2012 target archery hopeful Tom Barber, 16, from Alburgh has also been given the funding.
Tom was selected as a reserve for Great Britian’s archery team in Beijing this year and was also first in the UK Senior Indoor National Championships.
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Funds provide a sporting chance
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Eric Bennett of the United States competes in the Men’s Ind. Compound-Open Archery event at the Olympic Green Archery Field during day four of the 2008 Paralympic Games on September 10, 2008 in Beijing. (China Photos/Getty Images)
Read more and see more great photos here:
“One World, One Dream”: 2008 Summer Paralympics
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The USA Archery Teams also did very well in the team competitions winning gold in the Compound Cadet Women’s Team, the Compound Cadet Men’s Team and the Compound Junior Women’s Team.The Compound Cadet Women’s Team consisted of Kailey Johnston (Dublin, Ga.), Paige Pearce (Red Bluff, Calif.) and Tristan Skarvan (Elk Mound, Wis.). The Compound Cadet Men’s Team included Levi Cyr (Falmouth, Maine), Joey Hunt III (Minot, Maine) and Connor Kelly (Huntington Beach, Calif.). The Compound Junior Women’s Team was made up of Seneca Francis (Smithfield, Utah), Kendal Nicely (Gorham, Maine), and Samantha Pruitte (Harlem, Ga.).
The USA also won a silver medal with the Compound Junior Men’s Team. Team members included Ben Cleland (Swanton, Ohio), Adam Gallant (Poland, Maine) and Adam Wruck (Rice, Minn.).
The team boasted four multiple medalists with Hunt, Johnston and Nicely all winning two gold medals each individually and team. Pruitte won silver individually and gold in the team competition.
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USA Archery Junior Team Captures Most Medals at the 2008 Youth World Archery Championships in Antalya, Turkey
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FORMER men’s compound World Field Champion Chris White (Rugby Bowmen) has topped the end of season UK rankings for the tenth consecutive year.
Naomi Folkard (Leamington) has topped the ladies’ recurve rankings for the eighth time; and a number of other Warwickshire archers feature in the top 20.
White, aged 30, and 25-year-old Folkard both started archery at a very young age and have been shooting for GB since they were juniors. Both are also all-round archers competing internationally in outdoor target, indoor target and field archery.
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Archery - County of Warwick Association latest
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