Rio's Shooting Center ready to receive 2016 Olympic Games
The glass structures also allow for integration with the natural landscape
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Rio is perfectly able to host the 2016 Olympic Games. The statement was made by the athletes currently competing in the ISSF Shooting World Cup, which is being held in the National Shooting Center, at the Deodoro Sports Complex, in Rio de Janeiro, and has brought together 254 athletes from 44 countries. After four days of competition the athletes evaluation of the Complex is excellent. Harald Stenvaag (Norway) has already shot from stands in six Olympic Games and won two medals: bronze, 3-position rifle, Sydney 2000; and silver, 50m free rifle prone, Barcelona 1992. And from the heights of his 35-year-experience in shooting he analyses the facilities of the Deodoro Sports Complex. The stand looks very much like that of the Sydney Olympic Games, a very pleasant place, with excellent shooting stations. If Brazil comes to host an edition of the Olympic Games, it can certainly use this Shooting Center, said the 55-year-old shooter.
The resemblance with the Sydney stand called Danish Torben Grimmels attention as well. In the 2000 Olympic Games, Grimmel won the silver medal, 50m free rifle prone. It is very clear that this project was based on the 2000 Olympic stand, which is great. It is very good to compete in this international-class venue, which could very well receive an Olympic competition, guaranteed Grimmel.
The Deodoro Sports Complex also positively impressed the Serbian Jasna Sekaric, whose resumé includes five medals in four Olympic Games editions: Athens 2004 (silver, 10m air pistol), Sydney 2000 (silver, 10m air pistol), Barcelona 1992 (silver, 10m air pistol) and Seoul 1988 (gold, 10m air pistol and bronze, 25m pistol). Facilities are functional and organized and show characteristics of other international stands I have known. Brazil could certainly receive an Olympic competition in this venue, Jasna stated.
With an area that exceeds 50 thousand square meters, the National Shooting Center is rectangular, with modern lines. The four stands (10m, 25m, 50m and finals hall) are integrated by a catwalk the public can use to go from one event to another. On the sides, green laminated glasses provide thermal and acoustic protection as well as additional safety. The glass structures also allow for integration with the natural landscape that was preserved. The National Shooting Center was built to host the competitions of the 2007 Pan American Games and is located in the same cluster where were also built the state of the art National Equestrian Center.
For Christoph Schmid (Sweden), who has already qualified for the Beijing Olympic Games, the Brazilian stand will become a world reference. In Switzerland, we have no stands such as this. These are high-class facilities, he praised.
The resemblance with the Sydney stand called Danish Torben Grimmels attention as well. In the 2000 Olympic Games, Grimmel won the silver medal, 50m free rifle prone. It is very clear that this project was based on the 2000 Olympic stand, which is great. It is very good to compete in this international-class venue, which could very well receive an Olympic competition, guaranteed Grimmel.
The Deodoro Sports Complex also positively impressed the Serbian Jasna Sekaric, whose resumé includes five medals in four Olympic Games editions: Athens 2004 (silver, 10m air pistol), Sydney 2000 (silver, 10m air pistol), Barcelona 1992 (silver, 10m air pistol) and Seoul 1988 (gold, 10m air pistol and bronze, 25m pistol). Facilities are functional and organized and show characteristics of other international stands I have known. Brazil could certainly receive an Olympic competition in this venue, Jasna stated.
With an area that exceeds 50 thousand square meters, the National Shooting Center is rectangular, with modern lines. The four stands (10m, 25m, 50m and finals hall) are integrated by a catwalk the public can use to go from one event to another. On the sides, green laminated glasses provide thermal and acoustic protection as well as additional safety. The glass structures also allow for integration with the natural landscape that was preserved. The National Shooting Center was built to host the competitions of the 2007 Pan American Games and is located in the same cluster where were also built the state of the art National Equestrian Center.
For Christoph Schmid (Sweden), who has already qualified for the Beijing Olympic Games, the Brazilian stand will become a world reference. In Switzerland, we have no stands such as this. These are high-class facilities, he praised.
