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The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) made a major amendment to its selection policy for the Paris Olympics 2024. Under the new changes, the shooting federation will award just two bonus points to the Olympic quota winners in the fire-arm category and one to air weapons shooters. Earlier, the Olympic quota winners earned 10 bonus points for World Championship gold, while those finishing at fourth spot earned five points.
In the World Cups, the gold medallist would get six bonus points earlier while silver medallists and bronze medallists would get four and two points, respectively. As per the amendment policy, only one or two bonus points will be added to the average of three scores of quota winners.
The governing body decided that the final average score will be the average of the best three scores in Olympic selection trials. The events that come under the category of air weapons are 10m air pistol and 10m air rifle. On the other hand, the fire-arm category events include 50m rifle 3-positions, sports pistol and rapid-fire pistol.
The official statement read, “The policy is based on each shooter getting Final Average Score (FAS). The FAS will be computed by taking the average of the top 3 Olympic selection trials scores plus the quota bonus point (QBP) to arrive at FAS. This committee does not wish to take away the individual achievement of the sportsperson from achieving this laudable milestone of winning an Olympic quota place.”
