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News in-depthParis Olympics
Paris prize money opens Olympic divide
...World Archery pays prize money at its own events, including its World Cup, supporting athletes’ journeys to the Games....
April 12, 2024
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
What’s happening in Tokyo: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to 2024
...April 13 to May 6; further information and tickets here Sport Asakusa Yabusame at Sumida Park See the traditional martial art of horseback archery in Asakusa’s Sumida Park....
January 31, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Style
What to wear to your company offsite
...At Wilderness, strategy meetings are interspersed with activities such as wild swimming, workshops on meditation and breathing, survival skills, archery and axe-throwing....
February 13, 2023
Sport
Why the golf establishment fears Saudi Arabia’s rebels Premium content
...Greg Norman, who was known as “the Shark” in his playing days, offers an alternative to the US PGA Tour, the dominant force in a game that was once banned by James II, King of Scots, lest it distract from archery...
June 11, 2022
The Big Read
Disrupting golf: the Saudi-backed plan to shake up the sport
...The first written record of the game in Scotland is a document from 1457 in which James II, King of Scots, banned the sport because it was a distraction from archery....
November 25, 2021
News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
Sport ready to bounce back from lockdown blow
...Meanwhile, Neil Armitage, chief executive of Archery GB, the governing body for the sport in the UK, wants to modernise the group’s image to help attract new participants and corporate sponsors after more...
March 27, 2021
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Football
Scottish football in turmoil on how to blow whistle on season
...“What they were trying to do is to inject the one thing that you really need, which is certainty,” said Chris Brady, a professor at Salford University’s Centre for Sports Business and director of research...
April 14, 2020
News in-depthFIFA Men's World Cup
World Cup marks rise of western European women’s football
...There is a risk that European women’s football could stagnate, like Olympic sports such as canoeing or archery: watched during a big tournament when national pride is at stake, ignored the rest of the time...
July 7, 2019
Jamil Anderlini
Huawei arrest offers clues to the US-China trade war psyche
...Obsessed with gold medals, the state has poured enormous resources into sports that other countries often neglect, such as archery, shooting and curling, in search of quick wins....
December 12, 2018
Life & Arts
Private libraries make novel use of booksellers
...“We are used to customers coming into the shop with all sorts of bizarre requests: books on medieval archery, books on cannibalism . . ....
March 8, 2018
Sport
British Cycling budget cut by £4m for Tokyo games
...Badminton, archery, fencing, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby have all lost their funding from UK Sport, which receives money from the UK government and National Lottery, while the budget for British Cycling...
December 9, 2016
Sport
Rio Olympics 2016: Ledecky’s reign begins
...Instead, see the record of South Korea’s women’s archery team....
August 8, 2016
Sport
Rio Olympics 2016: Mo Farah and Phelps scoop gold
...With only four medals so far, one gold, one silver and two bronze following disappointments in judo, tennis, swimming and archery, Brazil will struggle to surpass its record of 17 medals in London 2012....
August 14, 2016
World
Week Ahead World and Political Diary: On their marks in Rio
...The motto for the games is Viva sua paixao (Live your passion), and 304 events in 28 sports will be contested until August 21....
July 31, 2016
Letter
Cricket could almost have been invented in Mongolia
...Instead, the seeds of horseracing, archery and wrestling flourished....
October 28, 2015
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
The Diary
The Diary: John McDermott
...In 1457, King James II of Scotland banned football and “ye golf”, which he thought distracted his subjects from archery....
July 31, 2015
Sporting ViewJurek Martin
Time to cut the Olympics down to size
...and all other sports that do not involve judges awarding style points....
August 9, 2015
FT Magazine
Perfect pistes for kids
..., in Courchevel’s sector of the Trois Vallées, there is more to delight the kids: the Parc des Indiens, a Native American-themed kids’ area, with hot drinks in tepees, dressing-up and the chance to try archery...
October 24, 2014
Life & Arts
Baku to the future: changing architecture in Azerbaijan’s capital
...It will be used for archery. With its waving ribbon canopies, the new National Gymnastics Arena is a delightful essay in architecture parlante....
April 10, 2015
Life & Arts
Short cuts: Updates from Australia, UK, India, Iran
...But now the sport, also known as “cunning running”, is to get a makeover at the hands of Red Bull, the energy-drink manufacturer that is the world’s largest sponsor of extreme sports, from snowboarding to...
October 24, 2014
Life & Arts
A dragon’s eye view: hot-air ballooning in Bhutan
...We watched two villages compete with astounding skill at the national sport of archery....
April 10, 2015
First Person
First Person: ‘I’m a professional knife thrower’
...I’ve always been interested in archery and darts, and in 2005 I decided I wanted to learn how to throw knives too....
July 18, 2014
Life & Arts
‘Ming: 50 Years that changed China’, British Museum, London
...In physical activity horse-sports were paramount, but there was also archery, football and a game that looks exactly like golf....
September 19, 2014
Life & Arts
The tour de Bhutan
...The national sport is archery, the national dish is a goo of chillies and cheese....
April 18, 2014
The World blogWorld
Smart reads: September 3, 2013
...A wonderful dispatch from Bhutan, where the national sport is archery....
September 3, 2013

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