Shooting Discussion | Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Road to LA 2028

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Edited August 4, 2025 by Sindo

[intoronto 6,575]

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1151520/rapid-fire-pistol-may-be-axed-from-la28

 

[ChandlerMne 1,210]

"Smart" move, IOC. Really smart.

Why should you keep shooting at all?

Its sooo historic sport.

I am sure they will surprise us with some Gen Z pastime.

 

Edited January 27, 2025 by ChandlerMne

[NearPup 3,562]

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1151520/rapid-fire-pistol-may-be-axed-from-la28

 

They’ll really do anything but add the women’s 25m rapid fire pistol to the Olympics.

[phelps 8,341]

8 hours ago, intoronto said:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1151520/rapid-fire-pistol-may-be-axed-from-la28

 

 

[Monzanator 4,798]

This is just sailing deja vu. IOC will do anything to cut down the athletes quota on the less popular sports. Sailing & shooting have a long history but they're just not trendy enough these days to survive the purge in some capacity. Yeah, it sucks...

[intoronto 6,575]

2 hours ago, Monzanator said:

This is just sailing deja vu. IOC will do anything to cut down the athletes quota on the less popular sports. Sailing & shooting have a long history but they're just not trendy enough these days to survive the purge in some capacity. Yeah, it sucks...

sailing and shooting have lost significant quotas the last two cycles, so yea. But I am not sure how swapping an event makes the quotas go down?

[NearPup 3,562]

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

sailing and shooting have lost significant quotas the last two cycles, so yea. But I am not sure how swapping an event makes the quotas go down?

I think this has less to do with reducing quota and more about making the event program the same for men and women.

 

But they could also just replace the women’s 25m pistol with a 25m rapid pistol.

[Monzanator 4,798]

9 hours ago, intoronto said:

sailing and shooting have lost significant quotas the last two cycles, so yea. But I am not sure how swapping an event makes the quotas go down?

 

It's simple. In shooting it's possible to have the same athletes compete in multiple events (air rifle + 3 pos being the obvious one) but rapid fire pistol is for "one event speciallists" so by cutting down this event you actually remove more quotas by design. Promoting "multi event" athletes in multi event sports lowers the quota by default.

 

It's no different when gymnastics promoted OG qualifying through all-around which hosed single apparatus speciallists who could only make it as reigning world champions (and why Leszek Blanik didn't compete in Athens 2004 and only qualified for Beijing 2008 because he won WCh gold in 2007).

[Gianlu33 5,308]

The IOC approved some major ISSF changes, which will go into effect as early as the next competitions 

• Approved proposals include increasing the number of athletes in shotgun and the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol event finals from six to eight
• The 50m rifle 3 positions finals will feature just the standing position. Qualification still requires prone, kneeling and standing sections.  
• Changes have been made to the mixed team finals too, no longer creating gold and bronze-medal matches. Instead, all four teams who progress from qualification will compete together, following an elimination format instead.