Equestrian FEI Dressage European Championships 2023

[dcro 10,210]

Battle for gold will be tight so there is every possibility that the strategic scoring from the British judge (who else?) will make the difference.

[dcro 10,210]

qualified teams for Paris.

 

Belgium did really well. Spain meanwhile was kind of bad but they made it.

Sad for Finland. It was not their championshpis. Based on 2021 results they would have qualified easily.

 

Norway and Luxembourg did as much as they possibly can given the low level of their third riders. They never stood a chance once Belgium started pulling 70%+ scores out of the bag.

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

 

 - 242.220 (Discard: 74.565). Up around 8 points on world championship score.

 - 239.674 (Discard: 74.845). Up around 9 points on world championship score.

 - 228.727 (Discard: 74.146). Finishes around 7 points lower than 2022 World Champs.

 

 

 

In the quest for Olympic quotas: 

 

 - 216.119 (Discard: 70.217). Quota

 - 213.727 (Discard: 70.947). Quota

 - 214.582 (Discard: 69.068). Quota

 - 210.249 (Discard: 65.978). All went a bit wrong for them on 4th line rider. 

 - 208.400 (Discard: NA).

 - 207.454 (Discard: N/A). 

 - 207.159 (Discard: 62.888).

 - 206.241 (Discard: 66.972). Team down by around 4 points compared to their 2022 score. 

 - 202.409 (Discard El). 

 - 195.435 (Discard: N/A). A competition to forget for Ireland.

Edited September 7, 2023 by Rafa Maciel

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

  On 9/7/2023 at 2:17 PM, dcro said:

Battle for gold will be tight so there is every possibility that the strategic scoring from the British judge (who else?) will make the difference.

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As much as I love a good conspiracy theory, the battle for gold was never likely to be all that close - neither Germany nor Denmark brought their top horse/rider combinations to the competition whereas GB did.

 

[dcro 10,210]

  On 9/7/2023 at 2:40 PM, Rafa Maciel said:

As much as I love a good conspiracy theory, the battle for gold was never likely to be all that close - neither Germany nor Denmark brought their top horse/rider combinations to the competition whereas GB did.

 

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Still Wessles raised Hester/Dujardin's average by over 0.75% which is a lot given that is the seven-judge average. Anyone who follows these events would have known that anything was possible before Fry entered the arena.

 

 

And this is way beyond any conspiracy, the last time Isobel Wessels got selected to judge championships:

 

6 judges: 74.4%-76.2%

Wessels: 80.196%

 

Way above any bias. Plain cheating.

Edited September 7, 2023 by dcro

[hckošice 15,074]

Is "for president" competing here ?

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

  On 9/7/2023 at 2:45 PM, dcro said:

Still Wessles raised Hester/Dujardin's average by over 0.75% which is a lot given that is the seven-judge average. Anyone who follows these events would have known that anything was possible before Fry entered the arena.

 

 

And this is way beyond any conspiracy, the last time Isobel Wessels got selected to judge championships:

 

6 judges: 74.4%-76.2%

Wessels: 80.196%

 

Way above any bias. Plain cheating.

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You can cherry pick any scores from within the set and paint a distorted picture but it seldom leads to a balanced view.

 

You are absolutely correct when you say that Wessels' score increased the average for Hester (+0.406) and Dujardin (+0.357) however by the same measure, her score reduced the average for Charlotte Fry (-0.228). The net impact on score from Wessels was therefore +0.37.

 

For , Wessels had minimal impact on Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and Frederic Wandres (-0.08 and +0.026 respectively) whilst she increased the average score for Isabel Werth by 0.326 points. Her net impact on German team score was therefore +0.273.

 

Her impact was most marked for - increasing the team score by over 0.7 points. The scores for all three riders were elevated by Wessels - Nanna Skodborg Merrald (+0.241), Carina Cassoe Kruth (+0.327) and Andreas Helgstrand (+0.135).