Shooting
Shooting events in the Olympic Games are for men and women. The competitors use rifles and pistols. They shoot at targets 25 or 50 metres away. For some events the shooters stand and for others they kneel down or shoot while lying on the ground.

In events called trap shooting and skeet shooting, the shooters fire shotguns at clay saucers which are flung into the air from a machine.

Men's shooting was one of the nine sports at the first Olympic Games of modern times in Athens in 1896. In 1900 at the Paris Olympics the shooters shot at live pigeons!
Women competed in shooting events for the first time at the Los Angeles 1984 Games. 

For more information about Olympic shooting
http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=SH

Information about the Australian shooting team for the 2008 Olympics is here
http://www.olympics.com.au/Sports/SportsShooting/tabid/236/Default.aspx?link=236&

Acknowledge this source in your bibliography like this:
Thomas & Sydenham, Shooting. [Online] www.kidcyber.com.au (2008)

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