The most powerful Kuwaiti in the history of sport may be serving a 15year Olympic ban but the Gulf country still wishes to make its mark at the Paris Games with shotguns, sabres and a singlehanded dinghy.

Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, the long time Olympic Council of Asia president and once among the most prominent people in the sporting world, received the prolonged ban in May for breaches of International Olympic Committee (IOC) ethics policies.

The controversial sheikh was also once a major player at soccer's governing body FIFA however his politicking did not always work in Kuwait's favour and the nation's greatest Olympic moment is not actually credited to the oil-rich emirate.

When Fehaid Aldeehani topped the podium in the men's double trap shooting at the 2016 Games in Rio, he did so as an independent Olympic professional athlete because Kuwait had been suspended by the IOC.

The reason for the restriction was government interference, the result of efforts by other members of Kuwait's judgment family to apply control over Sheikh Ahmad's sporting fiefdoms.

All five of the Olympic medals won by Kuwaitis have actually included the aid of a shotgun and it is again to the traps and skeet range that the nation will be trying to find medal success in Paris.

Mohamed Al-Daihani will make his Olympic launching at the age of 40 and follow in the footsteps of his daddy Nayef, who competed in the skeet at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

After receiving the Games by taking third location in skeet at the Asian Championships in January, he commemorated Aldeehani and two times Olympic bronze medallist Abdullah Al-Rashidi.

(Their) achievements are thought about a source of pride for Kuwait, in addition to an inspiration for all Kuwaiti shooters, and I are among them, he informed the International Shooting Federation website.

Another shooter, previous world champ Khaled Al Mudhaf, scheduled credentials for the Games by completing 3rd at the world champions in Azerbaijan last year.

After the IOC restriction was lifted in 2018, Kuwait took 10 professional athletes to the Tokyo Games in 5 sports: athletics, karate, rowing, shooting and swimming. Al-Rashidi's 2nd bronze in skeet was the only medal. Just two female professional athletes went to Tokyo, 17 years after sprinter Danah Al-Nasrallah became the very first Kuwaiti female to complete at the Olympics at the Athens Games.

This year there is much enjoyment surrounding Ameena Shah, who has actually received the Olympic regatta in Marseille in a first not only for Kuwait but all Gulf countries.

I am extremely happy with this historical achievement, it is the very first time that Kuwait has actually gotten approved for the Olympics in the sport of cruising, Shah, who will compete in the single-handed rowboat, informed the Kuwait News Company. I am proud to be the very first Kuwaiti lady and the very first Gulf female to accomplish this.

Yousef Al-Shamlan also made a bit of history for the country when he got approved for the males's sabre in March. Kuwaitis have competed in fencing through quotas at the Olympics given that the 1976 Montreal Games however 25-year-old Al-Shamlan is the very first to certify by right.

This is a substantial minute for Kuwaiti fencing, said Hamad Al-Awadhi of the Kuwaiti Fencing Federation.