Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on January 5th, 2009 | No Comments »

I’m becoming a big fan of Vanessa Lee. She’s from our friends up north, Canada but she’s practicing with the Koreans and shooting lots of arrows. She’s been publishing a couple of videos … with her own style and jua-de-vive. She even lets us in on the secret on why the Korean archers are sooo good. Check out her posting.

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It’s been… ONE WEEK!

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on January 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »

The USA Archery World Team Indoor Trials will be held this weekend at the new Chlapaty Recreation and Wellness Center on the University of Dubuque campus, one of four major events to land in the Dubuque area in 2009.

More than 90 archers from across the country are scheduled to compete, and qualifiers will advance to the World Indoor Championship March 4-8 in Rezeszow, Poland.

I wish I could be there to see the competition. I’m a big fan of Vic and Brady’s.

“A lot of the archers are bringing their families with them,” Rahe said.

Victor Wunderle and Brady Ellison, both members of the U.S. team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, are in the field.

Wunderle advanced to the men’s individual quarterfinal, while Ellison made it to the round of 32 before bowing out.

“To see Olympic-class athletes compete in Dubuque is a real thrill for us,” Rahe said. “We are very excited about this.”

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Archers, Dubuque shoot for success

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on December 24th, 2008 | No Comments »

The 14-year-old Great Sankey High School pupil started out in the sport five years ago but only entered his first competition in May and now the national team selectors look set to keep an eye on his potential for the future.

Abbott, inspired by Warrington’s Paralympian archery gold medal winner John Stubbs, has set his siights on representing Great Britain at the Olympic Games in London in 2012.

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Keep an eye on Thomas

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Posted in Archery Stories, Archery Video, Olympic News on December 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »

Check out the windy weather at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Tough archery conditions no matter what or where you’re shooting.

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Posted in Archery Stories, Archery Video, Olympic News on December 17th, 2008 | No Comments »

Wonderful video, full of history, tension and sport. Highly recommended.

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on December 17th, 2008 | No Comments »

A Kayaker, Canoer, and Nordic Skier, Emily Wright has her hands full of training. She took some time however to watch our USA Olympic archers take on the 1000 Arrow Challenge and took some great photos. Check them out.

On a normal day (over the course of 8 hours), the archers might shoot between 200-300 arrows. 1000 arrows is over three times the normal training load. To put things into perspective, that would be like us kayakers taking our normal 2-3 hours on the water daily and multiplying it into a 9-hour continuous paddle Yikes. Talk about over-distance training.

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1000- Arrow Challenge

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on December 12th, 2008 | No Comments »

This article from the Leicestershire Mercury takes a look at the impressive lineup of archers on their team, ready for the Australian Youth Olympic Festival next month.

The British team is 100-strong and is made up of competitors from canoeing, diving, equestrianism, fencing, gymnastics, rowing, shooting, triathlon and beach volleyball.

The Birstall youngster had her first taste of international action in October when she was a member of the GB cadet team which competed at the Junior World championships in Antalya, Turkey.

She shot in the women’s recurve team, while Bowmen of Rutland’s James Mortlock was a member of the junior men’s recurve squad.

Both qualified for the head-to-head rounds, Mortlock finishing with a rank of 32 and top Briton. McPherson was ranked 63rd after losing to Russia’s Tatiana Segina, who went on to take gold.

Archery: McPherson earns a call to the British squad

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on December 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

Archery will be one of the sports at the Youth Olympics in Singapore that will participate in mixed gender teams. Yes, boys and girls will be competing on the same teams, from the same country. Archery is a natural sport for this kind of competition.

Certain other sports such as archery, athletics, cycling (with one event a combined one of road race and BMX), fencing, judo, modern pentathlon, swimming, tennis, table tennis and triathlon will also be modelled on that format.

Others will be tried out under another model, such as basketball which will feature teams of just three on half the usual size court.

The inaugural hosts were warned in early August at the Beijing Olympics by The IOC Co-ordination commission chairman Sergey Bubka that they had ‘no time to lose’ in starting operations for the Games.

“They’ve got no time to lose from concept to operations,” the Ukrainian pole vaulting legend said as he revealed the need to change the original plan for the athletes’ village.

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Mixed teams set for first youth Summer Olympics

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on December 10th, 2008 | No Comments »

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Monica Abbott, who played on the 2008 USA silver medal winning softball team, and Kevin Stone, who won a medal at the Paralympic games for archery, greeted and signed autographs for Gatlinburg city officials, dignitaries, and their families.

“It was a genuine pleasure for Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies to have the opportunity to meet and acknowledge these two exceptional world athletes,” said Steve File, general manager of the aquarium.

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Ripley’s aquarium of the smokies host olympic medalists

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on December 9th, 2008 | No Comments »

Jake Kaminski, Resident Athlete at the Olympic Training Center has put up Coach Lee’s book up on EBay for anyone that would like to buy it. The starting bid is $50 for the book and has 6 says left in the auction.

Check out the EBay auction here:
Click here for the EBay sale

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