Equestrian at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

[dcro 10,211]

Horse inspection will start at 8:30 Brazil time, live updates should be available.

 

Hopefully all of the horses will pass.

[dcro 10,211]

Awesome, looks like we have fence-by-fence pictures of cross country thanks to Horse & Hound. XC course will be very influential.

 

Some highlights

 

Spoiler

Fence 1: Copacabana Flower Bed

Fence 4d

Fence 9

Fence 10: Bamboo Keyhole

Fence 11ab/12: Pan Am Wall Combination

Fence 13: Amazonian Log

Fence 16a (Old Water Complex)

Fence 19/20ab: Ski Jump

 

Fence 25ab: Web Water Jump

Fence 31: Knowledge Bridge

Fence 33: Sambodromo

 

 

Edited August 5, 2016 by dcro

[OlympicIRL 6,308]

43 minutes ago, dcro said:

Awesome, looks like we have fence-by-fence pictures of cross country thanks to Horse & Hound. XC course will be very influential.

 

Some highlights

 

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Fence 1: Copacabana Flower Bed

Fence 4d

Fence 9

Fence 10: Bamboo Keyhole

Fence 11ab/12: Pan Am Wall Combination

Fence 13: Amazonian Log

Fence 16a (Old Water Complex)

Fence 19/20ab: Ski Jump

 

Fence 25ab: Web Water Jump

Fence 31: Knowledge Bridge

Fence 33: Sambodromo

 

 

 

Are there any indications about how tough the course will be? 

[dcro 10,211]

7 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

 

Are there any indications about how tough the course will be? 

 

Word is that it will be the toughest Olympic cross-country trail since Sydney 2000. It's very techinical and twisty so time will be very hard to make (if not impossible), there is also a lot of varying terrain apparently.

 

Hopefully we'll have an amazing XC day.

[OlympicIRL 6,308]

Just now, dcro said:

 

Word is that it will be the toughest Olympic cross-country trail since Sydney 2000. It's very techinical and twisty so time will be very hard to make (if not impossible), there is also a lot of varying terrain apparently.

 

Hopefully we'll have an amazing XC day.

 

I guess that's why there were some surprise inclusions in our team. Hopefully the tougher course can help us but you never know.

[Mkbw50 475]

Two hours to go. Let's hope noone fails.

[heywoodu 16,465]

The ski jump fence disappoints me, but the Bamboo Keyhole looks awesome  

 

The Knowledge Bridge looks like a replica of the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam  

[dcro 10,211]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

The Knowledge Bridge looks like a replica of the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam  

 

I knew it looked familiar, but couldn't put my finger on it.

[dcro 10,211]

Unfortunately I won't be able to follow the horse inspection (and the first part of archery).

 

Updates from inspection will be available on twitter here. We also have start list for inspection. Starts in some 30 minutes.

[heywoodu 16,465]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

Unfortunately I won't be able to follow the horse inspection (and the first part of archery).

 

Updates from inspection will be available on twitter here. We also have start list for inspection. Starts in some 30 minutes.

Is that just a matter of checking they're healthy?