Equestrian at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[Dunadan 1,103]

Israeli rider and/or horse owner seems to be a fan of a famous mafia organization 

 

[lea26 32]

 Victoria Max-Theurer has withdrawn due to dental problems on her horse Abegglen NRW.

 

Austria had selected reserves but they didn't travel to Tokyo, so their dressage team is withdrawn. 

[dcro 10,210]

Oliva opens the competition with 70% !

 

This will be by far the best ever Brazilian result in dressage.

Great piaffe and transitions.

[Adriano 625]

70.419% for Brasil - Marcari Oliva, good start!

[dcro 10,210]

73.1% for Merrald.

 

Piaffes can be iffy with Zack, but a mistake in the flying changes was cheap.

[dcro 10,210]

And once again the background music at the Olympics has to be 80s rock standards.

[dcro 10,210]

Fault fests for Kim, Sado and Hanna. Poor Kazuki Sado probably had the worst ride of his life, scoring 8% below his SB.

 

This means Oliva is still 2nd!

 

And I see the Dutch judge (C) is already embarrassing herself with this piece of nationalistic sentiment.

 

[dcro 10,210]

Fry (77%) and Nilshagen (75%) qualify for the individual final from Heat A.

 

Merrald (73%) goes into the lucky loser pool, while Losos de Muniz and Oliva also broke the magical 70%.

[dcro 10,210]

Edward Gal posted the new high score of the day aboard the son of Totilas - 78.649%

 

Little underwhelming for Ferrer-Salat. Caetano broke 70% for Portugal, but is behind the two Latin American riders.

[dcro 10,210]

This is turning into a big-time fault fest. Near piaffe refusal for Antonia Ramel, which brought her score down to just 68.5%. She hasn't scored under 70% in years.