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Just a casual selfie for the Olympic team champions!
Can you imagine how well all the riders, and horses, and grooms, and organizers, and just everyone (media very much included) are going to sleep tonight? And thus, let one of the hardest hitting horse show hangovers our sport ever experiences commence. So get your rest, but don’t despair. There’s an exciting fall season only just around the corner now!
Events Opening Today: GMHA September H.T., The Fork at Tryon, Marlborough H.T., The Vista Fall YEH/NEH Qualifier, Otter Creek Fall H.T., Aspen Farm H.T., Flying Cross Farm H.T., The Event at Skyline,
Events Closing Today: Genesee Valley Riding & Driving Club H.T., Applewood Farm YEH & Mini Event, Waredaca Farm H.T., Ocala Summer H.T. II, Caber Farm H.T., Hunter’s Run H.T., The Event at Archer,
Tuesday News & Notes from Around the World:
Next up in equestrian at the Olympics: it’s fancy prancing time. The dressage horses trotted up on Sunday and the competition will start in earnest tomorrow with the first day of Grand Prix competition. COTH has the need-to-knows and Horse Nation has your time conversions for all equestrian disciplines!
Dressage made waves last week — not in a good way, as we know, and lots of noise has been made around the whole incident, but not a lot of solutions suggested. Horse Nation contributor Gwyneth McPherson chimes in and offers a potential path forward.
They may not have medaled, but Team Canada is on the up and up. In their first eventing team appearance at the Olympics, they finished 10th overall. Hear from the riders, Technical Advisor Rebecca Howard, and High Performance co-chair Emily Gilbert here on Horse Sport.
We know heart rate monitors are useful tools (for both humans and horse athletes!) but NBC is using them to show what parents of Olympians are going through as they watch their kid compete. Henry Rivera, father of 16-year-old US gymnast Hezly Rivera, wore one during her uneven bars routine and it was like the man was running the 100 meter dash! I think NBC should have put some on the grooms and coaches during yesterday’s show jumping rounds.
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Watch This:
Can’t get over cross country at Versailles? I can’t say I blame you. Here’s the NBC recap. Go ahead and put it on repeat.
