Our friends at the Horse & Hound are live blogging from the freestyle individual dressage finals at Greenwich today. They have kindly allowed us eventing crazies to join in the fun right here on EN. If you are at home trying to follow the Olympics live online, click here if from the USA and here from everywhere else.
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Schedule: Dressage starts at 12:30pm local, 7:30am ET.
Dressage Freestyle Link: Individual Scores
***UPDATE 9:25am ET***
USA’s Steffen Peters and Ravel completed their freestyle with a score of 77.286%. Unfortunately a few mistakes and minor resistance prevented a medal-winning score. Still, Ravel will be remembered as one of the best US dressage horses of the past decade.
Ravel retires after his second Olympic Games. Wishing for him it could have been with a medal but he doesn’t owe us anything.
— Joanie Morris (@USEquestrianHP) August 9, 2012
***UPDATE 11:03am ET***
Another gold medal for Great Britain! Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro performed an outstanding freestyle to win individual gold with a score of 90.089%. Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival easily claimed silver with 88.196%; Parzival looked very tough to beat, but hometown hero Valegro danced his way to the top. As if that wasn’t enough, Great Britain also took the bronze with Laura Bechtolsheimer and Minstral Hojris (84.339%)– who performed a crowd-pleasing kur to tunes from The Lion King. Germany just missed out, as Damon Hill and Helen Langenhanenburg finished fourth (84.303%). Great Britain’s Carl Hester and Uthopia rounded out the top 5.
If you have time today, go back and watch the replay…all these freestyles were beautiful to watch!
