With the 2012 Summer Olympics coming up in London in two years, athletes around the world are busy training.  Though not a traditional “team”, the United States’ Olympic archers are preparing as hard as anyone.  Several hopefuls are still in the running, such as Kristin Braun, who has appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last year.  The athletes from the 2008 Olympic Team are not sitting on their laurels, either.

Brady Ellison started out shooting on a compound bow but switched over to the recurve (the only bow allowed in the Olympics) in 2005.  He became a resident athlete at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California in 2005. At the 2008 Olympics he was narrowly defeated in the second round with a score of 113-107. Read the rest of this entry »