One Year Before USA Shooting Team Writes Next Great Olympic Chapter in Rio de Janeiro

By Justin Stakes

365 Days & Counting . . .

Colorado Springs, CO -(AmmoLand.com)- The stage is set for the next great Olympic chapter in USA Shooting’s proud history as the athletes, staff, members, sponsors and fans of the sport get set to welcome the one-year countdown to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

A year from tomorrow (August 5), 10,000-plus athletes will gather once again for the world’s greatest sporting spectacle. Between now and then, there is plenty to decide, but for now there’s something particularly gratifying in knowing that Rio is in Sight and four years of exhaustive work and preparation is boiled down into days – not years.

On the to-do list before then for USA Shooting Team athletes will be earning more Olympic quotas and securing individual team appointments. The USA Shooting Team has earned 20 of the possible 30 quotas (two per 15 Olympic events) available in the three disciplines, having solidified both quotas in Prone Rifle, Men’s Air Rifle, Men’s Rapid Fire Pistol, Men’s Double Trap and Men’s & Women’s Skeet. The U.S. is still …read more

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