From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I must disagree with Bob, Mick's average score in UIT
Centrefire, Freepistol and Standard Pistol (as well as
Air Pistol) were all above 550. I have been shooting
next to Mick on at least two occasions when he broke
the British UIT Centrefire record. Is it any wonder
he can't win a quota place with restrictions on practice!
At that level daily practice was the order of the day,
Mike Jay one of the Welsh Pistol Squad who won UIT Rapid
fire Bronze, Silver and Gold at successive Commonwealth
Games used to shoot 2-3 full courses a day in the months
leading up to the Games.
Even when Mick did win a quota place in one discipline
we sent another shooter instead I believe (this was at
the last Olympics).
Suport for our international shooters is very poor - on
one occasion at a Pistol AD Mick was having to sell one
of his free pistols to meet the costs of attending a
world cup event in Cuba about two months previously.
Several of our pistol shooters could have attended but
didn't (the overall competitor numbers at some of the
Olympic shooting events was pretty low and I can't
believe it was because of lackof range space and time).
Regards
Jerry
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