It is currently set to be held at the Royal Artillery Barracks on the edge of Woolwich Common in South-East London, but this could change as organisers look at what savings can be made to the venues' budget.

 

A meeting of the Olympic Board - made up of London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe, British Olympic Association chairman ColinMoynihan, Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell and London Mayor Boris Johnson decided that more work was needed to pick a site for the shooting.

 

A spokesman said: "Following the meeting yesterday, the Olympic Board agreed that further work to assess the venue for the shooting event at the London 2012 Olympic Games would be carried out by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) in the New Year."

 

Earlier this year, the accountants KPMG were commissioned by the ODA to produce a report on whether significant savings could be made by finding alternatives to using four temporary venues.

 

Following its latest meeting, the Olympic Board agreed to publish the report but removed all details of the costs involved "for reasons of commercial sensitivity".

 

In the report, accountants recommend that more work is done to look at holding shooting events at Bisley, a centre in Surrey, or sites within an hour's drive from the Olympic Village.

 

Sites in Dartford and Barking have also been mentioned as possible venues.

 

Last month the organisers agreed that the temporary venue for the basketball tournament at the 2012 Olympics was to stay in the Olympic Park.

 

They also agreed that the equestrian events and Modern Pentathlon would be at the Greenwich Park, but did not make a final decision about the shooting event.

 

The report is available on the London 2012 website at http://www.london2012.com/documents/oda-publications/venues-location-report.pdf.