UK proposes seperate CWG shooting event to mitigate India’s concerns

To mitigate India’s concern over the exclusion of shooting at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, Britain has asked the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) and British Shooting to consider hosting a separate event for the sport in 2022.

Morgan’s correspondence to Rijiju further includes that the British Sports Minister has asked the CGF and British Shooting to consider the options of hosting a separate Commonwealth shooting event in the UK in 2022.

The UK sports secretary also stated that since shooting was not a core sport under the CGF constitution, and it was not included in the original bid that was accepted by the CGF in 2017, a "fair" and "transparent" review was carried out by the Birmingham Games organisers looking at the possibility of adding additional sports following interests and support from different quarters.

“The review was fair and transparent and conducted as an open tender review process” she wrote, “Key criteria were set, written submission were made to the assessment panel, which consisted of representatives from Birmingham 2022 OC, DCMS, Birmingham City Council and Commonwealth Games England by representatives of each sports. The panel offered the shooting community to explore options for a partial or wholly Birmingham Based option, delivering some disciplines outside of Bisley. However, the International Shooting Federation, the International Confederation of Fullbore Rifle Association and British Shooting decided against submitting a proposal if it could not include all four disciplines at Bisley.”