AmandaJR
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Sounds like that horse was a plant and had never been ridden before!! Saint Boy...someone was having a laugh!
I don't know but assume rider as they're all meant to be capable horses of a similar standard.
The biggest thing I hate about Covid's impact on the Olympics is the mask wearing during the medal ceremonies. The emotions are somewhat missed/diluted with just the eyes showing (for me).
Not sure why they then take them off for the photos though?!
Felt awful for the rider - must be so hard after working all those years and to see it fall apart because of the luck of the draw with the horse just not wanting to do anythingis the refusal a horse issue or the rider?
Felt awful for the rider - must be so hard after working all those years and to see it fall apart because of the luck of the draw with the horse just not wanting to do anything
My cousin has done some local level show jumping, follows the pro circuit around Europe in the summer as a spectator. His partner has looked after horses all of his life that have been involved in eventing, show jumping etc. I asked his views on this and he was very scornful of the riding ability of quite a few of the riders and he had little sympathy for the athlete involved in this incident.I think if a horse won’t move it won’t move no matter what.
My cousin has done some local level show jumping, follows the pro circuit around Europe in the summer as a spectator. His partner has looked after horses all of his life that have been involved in eventing, show jumping etc. I asked his views on this and he was very scornful of the riding ability of quite a few of the riders and he had little sympathy for the athlete involved in this incident.
The general gist of this event, in his view, is that most expect the horse to take them around and little time is spent in practicing horse riding, concentrating on the other 4 events. When they get a horse that needs skill to get it round then they are often in trouble.
He very much made this point. Horses, animals, feed off the people around them. If the rider is anxious, in tears, not confident then the horse will just get worse. She just became a nervous weight on the horse, no wonder it didn't jump.I don't know much about riding BUT she was basically in tears before she managed to get the horse going forwards as it was misbehaving. I think we all know animals feed off our anxiety so it was only going to get worse.
Just catching up and watching the Women's Madison - what a great race that was.
Men’s Madison was great just then, really tight race and a good result.
Great effort at the end
However go back to sprint 10 lost a point right at the death needlessly.
Wether that would have won them the gold because they would only have been level on points I don’t know.
They could have lost everything by pushing for that single sprint as there’s no coming back from an empty tank. Look at what happened to Belgium trying to break away mid race, they had no legs at the end. Strategy was good and silver is a great result in that field.