Equestrian FEI Dressage & Jumping European Championships 2019

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Ireland qualified a dressage team for the Olympics for the first time ever!!

 

And now I will re-read that sentence a hundred times because it hardly seems possible and even until a couple of months ago I would have thought such a thing was crazy beyond belief

[DaniSRB 899]

wow and i laughed about coach :d

[dcro 10,210]

7 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

Ireland qualified a dressage team for the Olympics for the first time ever!!

 

And now I will re-read that sentence a hundred times because it hardly seems possible and even until a couple of months ago I would have thought such a thing was crazy beyond belief

 

I love how Ireland only had 4 individual riders in whole of Olympic history, and now 3 of them from very different generations came together and qualified a team.

 

In case you missed it, Team Ireland Equestrian covered the event with some interviews.

 

[OlympicsFan 858]

4 hours ago, Dunadan said:

 

Traitor? Has she ever lived in Spain at least?

 

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WELL TRAVELLED
She was born in Paris, France, to a Spanish mother and a French father and spent her early years in Geneva, Switzerland, where her parents own a yard. As a youth rider she was based in Germany before relocating to Netherlands, where she trained alongside riders such as Anky van Grunsven, Andreas Helgstrand, Ton de Ridder and Alex van Silfhout. After eight years in Netherlands she returned to Geneva in 2018.

 

You really gotta love the humor of our spanish friend ...

Spain has half of Cuba competing for them despite those athletes not having any connection to Spain and still our spanish friend finds a reason to complain ... about an athlete, who really hasn't much of a connection to Spain, competing for another country she has a much stronger connection to.

[OlympicsFan 858]

4 hours ago, dcro said:

News coming through that Dujardin was eliminated due to a bloody spur mark detected after the ride.

 

Here are the (detailed) individual results. Top 30 advance to the next round, meaning everyone up to and including Florian Bacher.

Did she receive a score before being disqualified? In case not, what score would have been appropriate in your oppinion (if you watched her ride)?

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, OlympicsFan said:

Did she receive a score before being disqualified? In case not, what score would have been appropriate in your oppinion (if you watched her ride)?

 

She got 81.8%.

[dcro 10,210]

[dcro 10,210]

Speed Competition in jumping starts in a bit.

Here are the start list / live results.

[Gianlu33 4,574]

Rai is a shit... They remove the frist 2 hours of equestrian fron the schedule. What shame

[Gianlu33 4,574]

Anyone know if some TV around the world will show this?