SYDNEY (AFP) ??” Police have reissued Australian Olympic trap shooting gold medallist Michael Diamond with a fire-arm licence after it was suspended when he was charged with assaulting his former girlfriend.

SYDNEY (AFP) ??” Police have reissued Australian Olympic trap shooting gold medallist Michael Diamond with a fire-arm licence after it was suspended when he was charged with assaulting his former girlfriend.

unless the return of the license does not guarantee Diamond, a gold medallist in the pair the Atlanta and Sydney Olympics, would regain his blot on Australia's team for the Athens games in August.

Diamond was cleared of the assault charge against former girlfriend Tracey Kennedy last week after a justice found the evidence was not credible.

He also escaped conviction after pleading guilty to not securing a firearm in a strict sense

The licence suspension has jeopardised Diamond's chances of defending his Olympic title in Athens because he was not able to enter the lists in a team selection trial.

The first of couple selection trials was held last month and Diamond was not allowed to cope because it was illegal to use