News for Aug. 10, 2004

Hollywood, History Draw New Talent to Old Sport

8/10/04, 12:58 pm EST - Xoanon

ATHENS (Reuters) - The Olympic rings may be about join the Lord of the Rings in fueling a boom in the ancient but hardly fashionable sport of archery. Hollywood heart-throb Orlando Bloom and the bowman elves who invaded the screen in cinema's version of the Tolkien trilogy has had youngsters all of a quiver; archery clubs around the world are reporting a surge in recruits. [More]