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After his victory on Monday, @teamdeutschland posted the following on their IG account:
🥇 2024, 🥇🥈 2016, 🥇🥇 2012 – Michael Jung, Legende. 👏👏👏
No translation needed.
There was obviously a myriad of eventing awesomeness that happened at the Palace of Versailles, but the thing that struck me the most is the crowds. It was just so great to see all that excitement and support for our sport, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it should now be the law for the whole of France to attend every cross country day.
Allez! Allez! Allez eventing!
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Wednesday News and Reading
The Olympic eventing may be over, but there’s still equestrian sports yet to come in Paris. Horse Nation has kindly worked out the times for the dressage and show jumping for a whole bunch of time zones.
And if you’re planning on watching the dressage but don’t know your Special from your Freestyle, this handy graphic explains everything.
Carl Hester’s in Paris with the British dressage team and was obviously going to be asked about Charlotte Dujardin during his post-ride interviews. Here’s what he had to say.
In more dressage news, the USA are out of the team competition following the elimination of Marcus Orlob. His horse, ‘Jane’, got quite excited when she entered the arena, what with all that Olympic atmosphere and the enthusiastic crowd. She started her test well, but the bell rang when some blood was spotted on her fetlock. It’s though that she must have knicked herself in her excitement. Here’s the full story.
I’m aware this has all been dressage heavy thus far, so here’s what Eurodressage thought of the eventing in Versailles. Spoiler alert – they thought it was awesome, of course.
Video Break
I’ll leave you for today with Queen B and Team USA:
