dcro 10,172 Posted June 20, 2016 #31 Share Posted June 20, 2016 The qualification period for MES (minimum eligibility standards) ended yesterday. I think all made it, the only questionmark is South Korean dressage rider. Germany announced their long list for eventing in Rio. Long list actually contains "inner circle" which is the likely team for Rio. Blocks 1 & 2 is likely the reserve list. How much would I like to see Bettina Hoy in Rio though! Inner circle Sandra Auffarth (Opgun Louvo) Michael Jung (Sam, Takinou, Rocana) Ingrid Klimke (Hale Bob) Andreas Ostholt (So is et) Block 1 Bettina Hoy (Designer) Julia Krajewski (Samourai du Thot) Dirk Schrade (Hop and Skip) Block 2 Claas Hermann Romeike (Cato) Andreas Dibowski (It's me) In other news, USA eventing team will be named today. Meanwhile, Danish dressage championships ended. Podium finishers Dufour, Kasprzak and Kirk Thinggaard are in "crystal water" for selection. Final team to be confirmed on July 17th. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MantaRaymarc 71 Posted June 20, 2016 #32 Share Posted June 20, 2016 1 hour ago, dcro said: The qualification period for MES (minimum eligibility standards) ended yesterday. I think all made it, the only questionmark is South Korean dressage rider. Germany announced their long list for eventing in Rio. Long list actually contains "inner circle" which is the likely team for Rio. Blocks 1 & 2 is likely the reserve list. How much would I like to see Bettina Hoy in Rio though! Inner circle Sandra Auffarth (Opgun Louvo) Michael Jung (Sam, Takinou, Rocana) Ingrid Klimke (Hale Bob) Andreas Ostholt (So is et) Block 1 Bettina Hoy (Designer) Julia Krajewski (Samourai du Thot) Dirk Schrade (Hop and Skip) Block 2 Claas Hermann Romeike (Cato) Andreas Dibowski (It's me) In other news, USA eventing team will be named today. Meanwhile, Danish dressage championships ended. Podium finishers Dufour, Kasprzak and Kirk Thinggaard are in "crystal water" for selection. Final team to be confirmed on July 17th. I hope Kim Dong-seon has been selected to the South Korean team in Olympic dressage competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,172 Posted June 21, 2016 #33 Share Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) Since the deadline for reaching the MES has passed, FEI published the list of nominated entries. Basically all athletes will come from this lists. Some teams are also confirmed now, as their nominated entries don't contain reserves. Dressage Eventing Jumping P.S. South Korea confirmed. Edited June 21, 2016 by dcro #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDOG 2,181 Posted June 21, 2016 #34 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Good, we have almost the same team as the PanAmerican Games. I was worried the guys couldn't get the same horses. Only Biraben's horse Abunola is missing, hopefully it's because this is a better horse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stamura84 18 Posted June 21, 2016 #35 Share Posted June 21, 2016 italy got one quota in jumping,and on the list there are three names .Do this means that italy has to choose just one of them,right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,172 Posted June 21, 2016 #36 Share Posted June 21, 2016 6 minutes ago, stamura84 said: italy got one quota in jumping,and on the list there are three names .Do this means that italy has to choose just one of them,right? Yes, Italian federation nominated three riders for Rio selection. One of them will be chosen, while the other two will be named as reserves. These are preliminary entries basically. Final entries will be published after everyone selects their final teams. stamura84 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,172 Posted June 22, 2016 #37 Share Posted June 22, 2016 CHIO Rotterdam starts tomorrow. This will be the last Olympic selection event for dressage teams of USA, Australia, Belgium and Great Britain. And also the first selection event for the Dutch. More about it here. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,172 Posted July 1, 2016 #38 Share Posted July 1, 2016 FEI updated the qualification list. Switzerland and Belarus declined quotas in eventing and that's how Poland and Italy got them. Sadly, we now lose Belarus in equestrian. Don't know what happened. Tseliapushkina was supposed to go with Passat to their third straight Olympics... Competing on the same horse for three Olympics is remarkable achievment and it very rarely happens. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,172 Posted July 6, 2016 #39 Share Posted July 6, 2016 We have a possible scandal now. Well it is a bit of a scandl already. Alexander Onishchenko, rich Ukrainian who has been investing in that international "Ukrainian" jumping team has been accused for corruption in Ukraine. Apparently, he sold no less than 44 horses after that. It is not known for sure, but it is possible that all Ukrainian horses from Olympic long list have been sold (all of them were owned by Onishchenko). If true, that would make them ineligible to compete at the Olympics. If that happens then it will be Ireland that gets the team quota. http://www.worldofshowjumping.com/en/News/Paul-Schockemoehle-buys-44-horses-from-Alexander-Onischenko.html #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicIRL 4,756 Posted July 6, 2016 #40 Share Posted July 6, 2016 22 minutes ago, dcro said: We have a possible scandal now. Well it is a bit of a scandl already. Alexander Onishchenko, rich Ukrainian who has been investing in that international "Ukrainian" jumping team has been accused for corruption in Ukraine. Apparently, he sold no less than 44 horses after that. It is not known for sure, but it is possible that all Ukrainian horses from Olympic long list have been sold (all of them were owned by Onishchenko). If true, that would make them ineligible to compete at the Olympics. If that happens then it will be Ireland that gets the team quota. http://www.worldofshowjumping.com/en/News/Paul-Schockemoehle-buys-44-horses-from-Alexander-Onischenko.html And perhaps more importantly than getting the team quota would be the additional three individual quotas. Cian O'Connor and the Irish media had been highlighting this possibility for a few days.... I hope and pray our team may finally get luck on our side after the rotten luck we endured in qualification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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