Shooting provides the best hopes for the 12-member UAE contingent for the 2016 Rio Olympics from August 5 to 21. With marksmen as sharp and talented as Shaikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Saif bin Futtais and Khaled Al Kaabi forming the squad in the tough skeet and double trap events, the UAE certainly have solid medal chances. Shaikh Ahmed Hasher Al Maktoum, double trap shooter, won gold, the UAE's only medal in the Game's history, at the 2004 Athens Olympics and this has inspired many young shooters in the country to take up to the elite sport. "The three-member UAE shooting squad are in top...
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