The new Olympic format of three to a team has felt like the hottest topic of the last couple of years – mostly because in all that time, and with all that discussion, most of
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Every Olympic story is an extraordinary story – and one that we really love comes from 23-year-old Polish rider Malgorzata Cybulska, who sits in the top twenty after dressage with her horse Chenaro 2. A
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Dressage is done and dusted, and yet we can’t seem to stop talking about it. Dressage is unique in the three phases in that there is effectively no cap in what you can achieve, while
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I’ve lost track of the day, the hour, and possibly my mind. There’s spreadsheets on spreadsheets and my computer has crashed several times, but it’s worth it to see all the lovely graphs that I’ve
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Arville Sporthorses (@arvillesporthorses) The Tokyo field has been thinned by one after dressage, as Belgium’s Lara de Liedekerke-Meier made the tough decision to withdraw Alpaga d’Arville due to a
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It’s never hard to find someone to root for at the Olympics – even if you fancy bucking the trends and choosing someone from outside the obvious candidates at the tippy-top of the leaderboard.
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It’s nearly time for the biggest day of our week: cross country day at the Tokyo Olympics! In honor of the best phase of eventing, we thought a guide to all you need to know
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It’s nearly time to kick things off for the cross country portion of competition at the Tokyo Olympics, and we’ve been busy gathering thoughts on Derek di Grazia’s twisting and turning track from the riders.
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It didn’t take long after dressage wrapped up today for the bustle of getting the horses and all of their equipment onto shuttles and over to Sea Forest Cross Country Course. The plan is to
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We’ve become accustomed to (spoiled by?) magnificent efforts by German anchor rider Michael Jung, but up until now we’ve been used to seeing him with his stalwart partners, La Biosthetique Sam and fischerRocana FST. Now,
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Welcome back, my dressage-loving little nerdlets, to the third and final session of this hotly-contested first phase at Tokyo. It’s all about to get rather exciting, as this year, none of these teams will have
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The beauty of the Olympics is that the leaderboard only tells one story – but every single person, horse, and supporting team out there has been on an extraordinary journey to get to this biggest
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There’s something about the Olympic Village that always seems extraordinarily mysterious to me – partly, I suppose, because we never get to see an awful lot of it, and partly because I read Jilly Cooper’s Riders way
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It’s only a blink of an eye, but with the way the schedule hits the time zones in America, the dressage sessions feel to go by very quickly indeed. Everything is absolutely flying by, and
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Website, Latest News, EN Olympic Digest Newsletter Signup, EN’s Instagram, EN’s Twitter, EN’s Coverage, The Ultimate Guide to Tokyo, The Form Guide: Team Edition, The Form Guide: Rider Edition Want to stay in the know with all things
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Great Britain – a team most who follow eventing closely would have picked as the one to beat in this Tokyo Olympic Games – has certainly done their job thus far, putting themselves into the
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Welcome back to the second of three sessions of dressage here at Tokyo! If you’re based in the UK, this is the only one at a civilised sort of time, starting at 9.30 a.m., though
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It was a bout of uveitis (inflammation of the eye’s uveal tract that can often result in blindness) that would eventually cost Viscera (Fidertanz 2 – Wilhelmientje, by Wolkentanz), a 13-year-old Hanoverian mare piloted for
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In a surprise to virtually no one, Great Britain’s pathfinder rider – also tasked with being second in the ring this morning – Oliver Townend is top of the order aboard his multiple five-star winner
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It might be overnight for those of us in America, but it’s mid-day in Japan and morning over in Europe, so we’re rolling out content 24/7. There is 100% chance that I wrote this prior
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Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your groggy eyes and weary earsies, for I am hyper-caffeinated and far too excited for the start of the Tokyo Olympics. Whether you’re also watching along in the wee hours
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It’s nearly time for the start of dressage at the Tokyo Olympics, and by my reckoning, that means you’re all going to need something to scroll through on your phone while you half watch those
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It’s been five long years and suddenly there’s only a few hours before we commence the eventing portion of the Olympic Games. With Session One going down centerline starting at 8:30 a.m. Tokyo time, we’ve
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