website statistics
Jump to content
  • Register/Login on Totallympics!

    Sign up to Totallympics to get full access to our website.

     

    Registration is free and allows you to participate in our community. You will then be able to reply to threads and access all pages.

     

    If you encounter any issues in the registration process, please send us a message in the Contact Us page.

     

    We are excited to see you on Totallympics, the home of Olympic Sports!

     

Equestrian 2020 Discussion Thread


dcro

Recommended Posts

Following Brazil's failure to keep their dressage team, plans are already being drawn up for Pan American Games to be based solely on Grand Prix for future editions.

 

This will hurt participation (almost 80% of athletes in Lima rode small tour), but in a long run it should prevent situations where teams qualify from Pan Ams and then fail to keep their place.

 

http://dressage-news.com/2020/01/06/cesar-hirsch-pan-american-equestrian-confederation-new-president-sets-as-priority-upgrading-pan-am-games-dressage/

#banbestmen

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/2151-equestrian-2020-discussion-thread/#findComment-266339
Share on other sites

7 minutes ago, dcro said:

Following Brazil's failure to keep their dressage team, plans are already being drawn up for Pan American Games to be based solely on Grand Prix for future editions.

 

This will hurt participation (almost 80% of athletes in Lima rode small tour), but in a long run it should prevent situations where teams qualify from Pan Ams and then fail to keep their place.

 

http://dressage-news.com/2020/01/06/cesar-hirsch-pan-american-equestrian-confederation-new-president-sets-as-priority-upgrading-pan-am-games-dressage/

 

Not sure what's the point. It's not like Mexico or any other nation would have been more likely than Brazil to achieve the MER during this period. If the FEI forces the issue it'll happen, but I feel what will happen is it will showcase that equestrian outside of jumping isn't as popular in the Americas as FEI thinks.

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/2151-equestrian-2020-discussion-thread/#findComment-266344
Share on other sites

“It is with both a heavy heart and a grateful mind that today I announce the retirement of my great friend, Diddy. I’ve always promised that I would do my best to listen and make the right choice for him when this time came."

 

Breaking and sad news coming through... Laura Graves has decided to retire Verdades. There will be no fairytale Olympic ending to their fairytale career together. :cry:

 

So their list of successes ends up looking like this...

 

image.png

 

 

Most of all, however, Graves & Verdades were always the ultimate fan favorites. Verdades is Graves' one and only horse. Horse with no pedigree, or much natural talent, which she acquired as foal. At one time she even wanted to quit the sport, but changed her mind after not being able to sell Verdades (yes, nobody at all was interested in buying the same horse that later won shitload of medals :yikes::hairpull:). Their breakthrough came in 2014, when they went from sneaking into U.S. nationals from waitlist, to finishing 5th individually at WEG. If there ever was an against-all-odds breakthrough.

 

In other news, I also must be getting old... :old: I started following the sport as closely as I do now in 2014, and today the shooting star of that same year has retired... Thank you and enjoy your retirement - Verdades. :bowdown::bye:

 

(Omaha 2017)

#banbestmen

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/2151-equestrian-2020-discussion-thread/#findComment-266710
Share on other sites

If that was Graves only horse, will she compete no longer? @dcro

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/2151-equestrian-2020-discussion-thread/#findComment-266721
Share on other sites

53 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

If that was Graves only horse, will she compete no longer? @dcro

 

For the moment, no.

 

However America has a good owners structure, so she does have some youngsters in the making. It will probably take a couple of seasons before she starts showing them internationally though.

#banbestmen

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/2151-equestrian-2020-discussion-thread/#findComment-266726
Share on other sites

Well, this is exciting. With this victory :CRO Pavicic qualified for the Future Challenger finals in March. :cheer:

 

https://results.equestrian-hub.com/gdf/282/3560

#banbestmen

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/2151-equestrian-2020-discussion-thread/#findComment-267835
Share on other sites

51 minutes ago, dcro said:

:AUT Katharina Stumpf changed allegiance to :ANT... No idea why.

 

Getting ready for the 2024 Olympics?

 

Most of her competitions were in St. George Prix so she needs to move up if that's her plan.

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/2151-equestrian-2020-discussion-thread/#findComment-268044
Share on other sites

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Latest Posts around Totallympics

    • In Rome, it would be useful to roof the swimming pool complex at Foro Italico, possibly with the option of retracting the roof and covering the tennis court complex. Overall, there's a lot to do, for example, compared to Budapest, but unfortunately, this is Italy How many years has Roma been building their new stadium, and they keep pushing back the completion date- now I read it's 2030? and it should be ready. The same goes for Milan- there should be a modern complex of indoor swimming pools with 50 meters pools, etc., but there's a problem with one stupid football stadium, which will only be built after an ultimatum from UEFA
    • and Artistic Gymnastics is "Sporting Gymnastics" while Rythmic Gymnastics is god know why "Modern Gymnastics" 
    • and a brief look to Cortina village    
    • We call it beauty skating, if we're using the literal translation. 
    • Our delegation are a bit surprised there no chairs nor tables in the rooms though  You not use tables in Italy ?   
    • In Milan we share the building with no one else than     &       In Cortina we share the place with  
    • impossible, there are not enough venues in both towns and I mean, Milan doesn't have an Olympic Stadium, a decent Tennis Complex and a big Swimming Complex (not to mention the sea) Rome, on the other hand, doesn't have a Rowing/Canoeing Basin nor arenas and stadiums for the team sports beyond football and rugby there's no chance that all those venues would be built from scratch, meanwhile if we use both cities we already have almost everything we need, especially the most expensive and controversial sites
    • New pole vault world lead and huge pb of 4.88by Hana Moll on her birthday yesterday .
    • https://nypost.com/2026/01/31/sports/team-canada-skeleton-coach-joe-cecchini-speaks-out-after-american-katie-uhlaender-manipulation-claim/   Oh the drama....   Cecchini: “I don’t really wanna speak negatively about Katie, but Katie was not on the World Cup team. She wasn’t a top-tier athlete in that program anymore. She was at the end of her career. I would personally would rather race against Katie. She’s not as competitive as the other athletes,” he said. “It’s probably really unfair to say and not really where I want to go with this but that’s where we are with that.”   Uhlaender: “If I were Canada, I would be concerned in how this coach is representing the Olympic values for his country,” Uhlaender told Fox News Digital. “He hurt a whole field of athletes, all with dreams, and this sends the message that they don’t matter unless they are number one. All athletes matter, and we all deserve to compete fairly, with integrity, and respect. He did not respect anyone in that field. “This is not about my resume or how good the athletes were in the race. This is about the fact that he intentionally manipulated the competition to hurt myself and 13 other countries because he felt it necessary to eliminate all possibility. That is against the spirit of sport and not what the Olympic movement represents.”   Isn't it great when other people's dirty laundry is aired?  /sarcasm     (I was a little surprised to see NPR pick this up, but per this article, Uhlaender preemptively recorded the phone call after receiving a text from Cecchini that said he had 'bad news' for her.)
    • Idea (that I don't want to mess with right now, but someone else can steal the idea): Could feed the docs from LA28 + Paris 2024 through AI and see what it says.  (Would just take downloading them, perhaps merging them for ease of upload, and passing it through.)
×
×
  • Create New...