The modern pentathlon will switch to using laser pistols for the shooting portions of the event in the 2012 Olympics. Sure that sounds kinda cool, except the pentathlon is running, shooting, swimming, fencing, and riding horses. Meh.Actual guns have been gone for a while, replaced by air pistols - though I think they still had those targets with the masked robber holding an old lady. Lazer pistols have been tested at the sports' world cup and at the youth championships with success. Wait - there's a pentathlon world cup? Clearly they should have scheduled it a different year than the real World Cup.
Klaus Schormann, president of world governing body the UIPM, said: "We will have laser shooting for London. We can now hold competitions in parks and shopping malls." Yes, all those legitimate sports that are played in malls. Sure it may cut costs by as much as two-thirds since because photons come cheaper than bullets, but they're taking Lazer Tag and removing the fun part of it. Wait, who cares?
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