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MOTHER and daughter archers Jan and Lorna Eley, of Haverhill, have places in the Olympic team firmly in their sights and are hoping to join the man about their house Barry Eley, the British team manager.
Jan, 46, is the current British No 1, and Lorna, 19, is ranked seventh, so their chances are good.
But husband and father Barry reminds them that he is going to Sydney anyway and they have to win their places with the right selection scores and a final shoot off.
The Eleys moved to Hanchett Grange in Haverhill three years ago from Bishop's Stortford, where they had already gained considerable success after the whole family took up the sport in 1987.
Barry, a fireman in London, took up the sport first and son Daniel, 22, currently at university in Germany, became a regional champion, then British junior field champion. Jan made the British team in 1993, but missed out on the 1996 Olympics when she was third and only one woman was taken. Lorna became British Junior Champion in 1994.
When they moved to Haverhill, the Eleys joined the successful Grampian Foods Archery Club, which also boast several other of the country's top ranked archers, including world silver medallist Steve Gooden, from Kedington.
"It does get a bit tense about the house at times, but then it gets tense with any archer. We took it up as a family and all got hooked, even my father-in-law shoots and he is 70," said Barry. "Jan and Lorna are both shooting well so they stand a very good chance of going."
PICTURE CAPTION: FAMILY FORTUNES . . . Barry Eley is off to the Olympics and his wife Jan and daughter Lorna (not pictured) are hoping to join him in Sydney.