Olympic Shooting News

It isn't every day your teenage daughter returns from summer camp and asks for a .22-caliber rifle.

Biathlete Megan Tandy of Prince George got what she wanted for Christmas -- a spot on the Canadian Olympic team.

Published on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 2:44AM EST J ust weeks before the spotlight hits Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, a landmark medical study is set to begin, drawing attention to the one class of Vancouverites that the city doesn't want to showcase: heroin addicts.

Top Left: Avianna Chao, who competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in shooting, waves to the crowds of people in Bolton as the torch made its way through Caledon on Friday, Dec.

Mercyhurst women's hockey forward Meghan Agosta will take a shot at a second gold medal after learning Monday that she was among 21 players named to the Canadian National Team for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.

THIRD ALASKAN: 33-year-old joins fellow biathlete Hakkinen and weiland on u.s. team.

The sunset as seen atop Big White in Kelowna, B.C. If the slopes here are good enough for aerial skier Steve Omischi, theya re probably good enough for you.

Tac Padilla no longer spends time on the shooting range as much as he wants to but has not given up hope to compete in the Summer Olympics.

The US Olympic Trials Selection Races are back on tap this weekend from Coleraine, Minnesota.

Russian Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko made a report at an election meeting of the Olympic Committee of Russia .

Skip Glenn Howard of Coldwater, Ont., hangs his head as the final few rocks are played in the men's final against Kevin Martin on Sunday.

She is one of six elite athletes currently in the Olympic Pathway Programme run by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.

Shooter William Chetcuti winner of a silver medal at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara and the gold medal at the Small Nations Games in Cyprus, claimed the Platinium Award given the Maltese Olympic Committee.

An Illinois insurance executive agreed to plead guilty to interstate stalking after secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews , according to court documents filed Thursday and first obtained by The Associated Press.

Last weekend while touring condos available for rental during an Eastern Ski Writers Association meeting at Waterville Valley in central New Hampshire , Tom Horrocks, communication manager at Killington in central Vermont took out his iphone and showed me how Twitter can be a social networking tool to promote this blog and be a source of snowsports ...

Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell believes he can overtake his countryman Usain Bolt.

Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell says he can catch countryman and world's fastest man Usain Bolt when the two face off next year.

Capilano River Regional Park is not the kind of place where you want to get stranded alone.

Pietro Beretta Arms Manufacturing Company is an Italian company and producer of field and competition firearms and optics.

The Globe's team of hockey reporters and columnists brings the latest news and analysis from across the National Hockey League Monday, November 30, 2009 7:46 PM The Phil Factor James Mirtle T he Maple Leafs have now played 12 games with Phil Kessel in the lineup and 12 games without him, which makes for an easy comparison as to how they've fared in ...