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Celebrations have been taking place at the Archers Of East Riding this week. Two Junior archers Blain Nicholson and Michael Smith - pictured right - have been selected to shoot at the performance unit at Lilleshall National Sport Centre in Shropshire the home of Archery G.B. Team.

The two Juniors have been training with the Yorkshire Archery squad for the past 3 years,where they have travelled the length and breath of the country competing at national completions.

The juniors have continually impressed their country coaches by winning many campionships.The coaches put their names forward to the Archery G.B. Training team.

They will travel to Lilleshall once a month for two days of training working on their technic and fitness working with Lloyd Brown the head coach for Archery G.B.

In the new year they will be training at the new academy which is to be based at Warrington Collage in a purpose-built Sports Facility used by other Olympic Disciplines.

The academy is a new concept working with coaching for 14-19 years olds to feed into the Olympic development programme.

The aim for both Michael and Blain is to take part in the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio, Brazil.

Good luck from all members of Archers of East Riding.