1. Archery

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3. Archery comes to the Olympics
This Picture is of Henry Richardson
He was an American archer who won
two Olympic bronze medals.
Richardson was the first archer to win medals at two different editions of the Olympic Games as well as the youngest medallist at the 1904 Summer Olympics at the age of 15 years and 124 days
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Archery joined the Olympic Games as a men's
sport in 1900 in Paris.

4. Girls can do it too! Back to timeline
Women archers began competing at the
Olympic Games in 1904 in St Louis.
This Picture is of Jessie Pollock
She was a female American archer who competed in the early twentieth century. She won two bronze medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri
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5. Archery Disappeared!! Between 1920 and 1972, archery
was not contested at the Olympic games
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6. FITA
The international governing body for archery, the Federation Internationale de Tira l'Arc (FITA), was founded in It took many years before all countries accepted the new international rules for competition
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7. First use of bow-sights
Millie Hill got the idea to make a sort of sight by attaching a black-headed pin to a piece of felt on the bow.
Bow sights were first used at a Tournament in the USA with a 'sighted' archer,
Emil Pikula, winning second place
Original Bow Sights Used to look like this
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8. Aluminium arrow shafts first used
The aluminium arrow story begins in 1939
when James Easton first began to
experiment with aluminium as an arrow-
shaft material.
Two years later, Larry Hughes
was the first archer to win the American
National Archery Championship while using
aluminium arrows
These are more modern aluminium arrows
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9. Plastifletch vanes replaced feathers
Max Hamilton introduces "Plastiflech" vanes
to replace feathers
Originally real feathers were used
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10. Recurve bows were made Bear Archery develops and sells the first
working recurve bows
Previous bows were straight-limbed longbows like this one
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11. First "Pistol grip" bow handle
Hoyt Archery develops the first
"Pistol grip" bow handle
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12. Torque stabilizer Introduced
Stabilisers are added to the bow to give it more stability when aiming.
Stabilisers also balance the bow so it will sit comfortably in the archer's hand while drawing and aiming
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13. Compound Bow
Holless Wilber Allen is granted a patent on his invention of the Compound Bow
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14. Andy Rimo develops the “Flipper”
Example of a Recurve Bow Arrow Rest. The support arm of the rest is spring loaded and will 'flip' out of the way of the arrow fletch.
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15. Archery, back at the Olympics
Munich, 1972: Fifty-two years after its last appearance at the 1920 Games, Archery returns to the Olympics with men's and women's individual events Reigning world champion John Williams, an 18-year-old army private, wins the gold, setting a world record for total score despite once completely missing the target.
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1972 saw the beginning of the modern archery competition at the Olympic Games. The events began to use standardized forms and many nations competed.

16. Cam wheels on compound bows first appear
Previous wheels where perfectly round.
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17. Olympic flaming arrow
The Olympic torch, in Barcellona, Spain is ignited using a flaming arrow shot by Antonio Rebollo of the Spanish Olympic Team.
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18. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
No longer does an archer merely pull back on a bowstring attached to a makeshift bow and let his often-misshapen arrows fly.
Nocking points, kisser buttons, levels, stabilizers, contoured grips, sights and clickers have all become standard equipment.
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19. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
Laminated bows come in a rainbow of colours and can send an arrow hurtling downrange at 175 mph.
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20. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
Feathers have given way to plastic vanes that produce truer flight.
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21. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
Bowstrings, once made of barbers' linen or from sinew boiled in water and then pounded to the proper texture, now are made of nylon.
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22. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
When an archer prepares for a shot, the first thing he does is to fit his arrow on the bowstring. But he no longer has to worry about it slipping out of position; it will be held there by a nocking point, a small metal or nylon disk clamped to the string.
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23. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
A bubble-type level tells the archer if his bow is true or on tilt.
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24. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
Helping to assure the archer that he has pulled the arrow back properly is a little gadget fastened to the string, a plastic button that at full draw fits between the shooter's lips.
Kisser Button
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25. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
Stabilizers are steel rods on the front of the bow that help balance it while the forward hand cradles a form-fitted Pistol grip
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26. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
With his aiming eye, the archer squints through a bowsight.
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27. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
When the bow is level, balanced, sighted in and comfortably gripped and when the kisser button is in place, there is just one more thing to do before releasing. That is to listen for the clicker. This fingerlike metal device on the side of the handle clicks when the tip of the arrow has been drawn past it.
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28. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
The clicker allows the archer to concentrate on aiming without having to look at his arrow tip to be certain he has pulled back exactly the right distance.
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29. It's A Whole New Shooting Match
With all this gear the bull's-eye opens wider every day.
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30. The Modern Bow