Equestrian at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

[dcro 10,210]

USA not looking too good. Peters only 74% today. All depends on the very last to go which is Laura Graves.

 

Broring-Sprehe 81%

[dcro 10,210]

Graves 80%

 

Holy shit! Ride of the lifetime for her! Bronze for USA, for the first time since 2008 we have a nation on podium that is not GER, GBR or NED (at any event, not just Olympics)

Edited August 12, 2016 by dcro

[dcro 10,210]

Werth 83.7%

 

That's it. Gold for silver for bronze for . Nice podium!

[Jackal 0]

Predictions for Individual:

1st Valegro 2nd Weihegold Old 3rd  ... Desperados 45% Showtime 55%

[dcro 10,210]

4 minutes ago, Jackal said:

Predictions for Individual:

1st Valegro 2nd Weihegold Old 3rd  ... Desperados 45% Showtime 55%

 

I think any of these four can win on their day, they are quite close.

 

Dujardin might have an edge though.

[OlympicsFan 860]

vor 37 Minuten schrieb Jackal:

Predictions for Individual:

1st Valegro 2nd Weihegold Old 3rd  ... Desperados 45% Showtime 55%

Two medals should be safe for Germany. Of course i hope that Werth wins an individual gold, but normally Dujardin will win the gold, especially because she gets overscored very often, probably because she is the current olympic champion. Werth would have to perform clearly better then Dujardin if she wants the gold and thats very unlikely, unless Dujardin has a second off-day in a row. I would say that Sprehe has a better chance for bronze than Schneider though ...

[dcro 10,210]

Brazilian team was excellent today in the first jumping competition, maybe that will bring a couple of people to Deodoro in next days

 

Anyway, Nestor Nielsen is the hero of the day

[intoronto 6,559]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Brazilian team was excellent today in the first jumping competition, maybe that will bring a couple of people to Deodoro in next days

 

Anyway, Nestor Nielsen is the hero of the day

 

Any other countries that looked good? Any did badly? Predictions for the future rounds?

[vinipereira 3,462]

3 horas atrás, dcro disse:

Brazilian team was excellent today in the first jumping competition, maybe that will bring a couple of people to Deodoro in next days

 

From the little I watched today, I thought the first session did have good attendance? Maybe I'm wrong... Anyway, Jumping finals were sold out (for brazilians at least) long time before the Olympics. I believe Jumping is considered the main Equestrian event?

[dcro 10,210]

12 hours ago, intoronto said:

 

Any other countries that looked good? Any did badly? Predictions for the future rounds?

 

I didn't watch whole competition so can't really tell, although Germany and Brazil seemed to be the best. But, first jumping competition at Olympics is usually much easier than those to come, so this competition was almost some kind of warm-up.

 

France and Netherlands faced some surprisnig eliminations/disqualifications though, but it doesn't hurt them that much teamwise. Eliminated/disqualified riders can still compete for a team, but their individual chances are gone.