Equestrian at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

[Gianlu33 5,276]

Just now, dcro said:

 

We have Eventing Nation's twitter again.

 

 Thanks a lot  

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

All Canadians and French accepted. Good start

 

Jonty Evans' horse first to be sent to the holding box. Other Irish + Zimbabwe accepted.

[dcro 10,210]

Kitajima withdrew before this inspection apparently

[OlympicsFan 860]

vor 2 Stunden schrieb dcro:

 

LOL, I've never said anything about not being a fan of Jung or Germany. I've always supported Germany in equestrian, especially in dressage (even though you are starting to make it hard so I'll just ignore you from now on and enjoy the competition).

 

1) Again it was in Normandy 2014, 54/91.

2) Again, it was in Normandy 2014

 

Refusals are part of this sport. You've never followed this closely so you don't understand, I'm not playing to be an expert in sports I don't follow closely. Olympics are supposed to be even tougher than WEG or Europeans because they are 3* competitions while Olympics is 4*. If you have ever watched a 4* competition then you would know that commentator there just keeps talking about refusals and stops on course that happen because they happen all the time, and they are supposed to happen as it is part of the sport.

 

Nice to know that you will stop with the discussion and also nice to know that you somehow know how often i watch eventing. I guess i dont have to say anthing, because you know what i think anyway?

If you dont mind, then please allow me to still write what i think, just in case that other people might not have your divine talent to read my mind:

1) 54/91 is still less than 38/64

2) Would you say that the level of competition at the olympics and world championships is the same? Am i right to assume that the average quality of athletes at 2014 world championships was lower than the average quality of athletes in Rio or would you say that most of those 27 athletes who werent allowed to compete here but competed at the last world championships would have been able to finish the course as expected? You have to wonder why all those world class athletes didnt manage to qualify ...

3) I want to ask another question, of course you dont have to answer it: 

How often in the last 6 olympics (1992-2012) or 7 world championships (1990-2014) did at least 59% of the athletes retire/had to whitdraw/had at least one refusal?

[dcro 10,210]

Cool, everyone presented has passed. At London 2012 for example we lost 6 riders between XC and jumping.

[dcro 10,210]

Kruger completes, nice!

[dcro 10,210]

Only one fence down for Lobos 

 

I love how he shouted "hop" before some jumps. That put the audience behind him

[Agger 1,700]

1 hour ago, OlympicsFan said:

1) 54/91 is still less than 38/64

 

Yeah. 0.03 %...

[dcro 10,210]

Tattersall gets the first clear jumping round, but with 4 time faults.

[Agger 1,700]

Frida Andersen out