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Efforts on to get archery back for Birmingham CWG

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Published on January 20, 2018 with No Comments

World Archery and several national archery federations have begun working to get archery included in the sports programme for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The English city was given the rights to host the Games after Durban withdrew citing financial constraints.

Archery was part of the programme when India hosted the Games in 2010 but was not included in the 2014 Games in Glasgow. It won’t feature in the 2018 Games, to be held in Australia later this year, as well.

World Archery held a meeting in Mexico City last October to discuss how to get the sport back in the Commonwealth Games. It formed a Commonwealth Committee “to encourage/support cities seeking to host the Games to include archery and to raise the profile of archery among the Commonwealth countries”.

World Archery secretary general Tom Dielen has already met the Birmingham representatives to consider including archery. Hilda Gibson, the international relations lead of Archery GB, is expected to take the lead in this matter. “In the New Year, we will continue to work with Commonwealth Games England and Birmingham City Council to secure the inclusion of archery in the sports programme for the Games,” she wrote to World Archery officials.

Anand draws with Adhiban, in joint lead with Giri

Indian Grandmaster B Adhiban held five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand to a creditable draw in the fourth round of the Tata Steel Masters Chess tournament at Wijk Aan Zee in  Netherlands

With two white wins and two draws with black, Anand is now sitting pretty on three points out of a possible four and the Indian ace seems poised for more looking for his sixth victory in this 80th edition of the event.

Adhiban went for the reverse Volga Gambit with white pieces and Anand had little troubles equalising. Adhiban tried to stir things up with some lively play but that boomeranged as Anand seized the initiative.

 

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