modern pentathlon event at the London Olympics in 2012 will witness a major change that could revolutionize the sport and attract more competitors to him.
London event will oversee the replacement of air guns by laser guns, a move that was completed after the test run at the Youth Olympic Games has proved to be a great success.
move will bring benefits in many ways. First of all, it will be cheaper to have laser guns in the air pistol. In fact, it will reduce the cost of maintenance events by two thirds. Secondly, it will mean much more security, and thereby facilitate the maintenance of an event in New venues.
Klaus Schormann, president of the UIPM, the world governing body, announced the decision and said that the competition can now be held in shopping malls and parks. Schormann currently attending the inaugural Youth Olympics will be held in Singapore, and the event is due to end on Thursday, October 7
.Schormann said that the use of new technologies that will enable all countries to participate in modern pentathlon. Earlier there was a limit to ho could prticipate, such as unanswered concerns about security. These relationships would no longer be valid, the laser guns replaced the traditional air pistols, Schormann said.
The new technology is under way testing a few years before it was finally tested on an international event that bears witness događaj.Prvi laser guns are used in air guns is the World Cup final in Moscow in June this year.
It was Prince Albert of Monaco has backed the use of laser weapons in air pistol, Prince Albert is Honorary President sport.Princ expressed the opinion that the great progress in the sport.
Specifically, he was impressed by the easy mobility of laser guns that could be transported by plane. He said that the move provided an introduction time in the future.
the introduction of laser technology is not the first change in the modern pentathlon is a witness nedavno.Prvi winds of change blew in the sport during the 2008 Olympics. During the Beijing event, the final two events of modern pentathlon, running and shooting are connected. This led to the introduction of new events, run-shoot.
Swimming is the first event of modern pentathlon, the second fence, a third, showjumping.
