Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister, photo via ProEquest Twitter
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The Australian blog, An Eventful Life, has a nice write-up of US Eventing Team member Tiana Coudray after the Olympics are over. The article recounts Tiana’s performance in London, and how her score became important following the loss of Boyd Martin’s score with Otis Barbotiere. It’s a good read for a slow Tuesday as we suffer from Olympic withdrawal syndrome.
Tiana’s words from An Eventful Life:
“I do get to compete Nick’s [Gauntlett’s] horses, which is great because it gets me out to the events and gives me more mileage – it’s a huge plus of being here,” she said. Looking forward, she commented, “It’s hard to lay a finger on what is so different about the team experience, and the Olympic experience, but there’s something about it – you have to go through it to know how to prepare for it in the future. Coming home on the train, I had time to think about the Olympic experience. I now have some very clear ideas about where I need to be and what I need to be doing for the next two years before the WEG and the next four years before the Olympics in Rio, both with trying to build up a string of horses and how to prepare those horses for a major championship.”
