Equestrian at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

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Ummm... So the appeal got dismissed after all. 

 

Curious if they will be taking it now to the CAS, as advertised earlier, as they are now again at a complete loss...

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Meh. I hope all this mess doesn't stop the little momentum Irish dressage got on the wings of the latest pre-COVID results.

 

Heike Holstein better deliver those sweet 8.5s for the extended trot next month.

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Japan- Team eventing

 

Yoshiaki Oiwa (Tullyoran Cruise)

Toshiyuki Tanaka (Talma d'Allou)

Kazuma Tomoto (Vinci de la Vigne)

Reserve: Ryuzo Kitajima (Feroza Nieuwmoed)

 

I can see this team getting on the podium. Oiwa is looking great for the jumping phases, but in all likelihood, he will be waaaaaay down after dressage. Outside of Top 50, possibly, so only a dark-horse chance for some individual medal.

 

Australia - Team jumping

 

Jamie Kermond (Yandoo Oaks Constellation)

Katie Laurie (Casebrooke Lomond)

Edwina Tops-Alexander (Identity Vitseroel)

Reserve: Rowan Willis (Blue Movie)

 

Katie Laurie 'deflected' from New Zealand.

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Belarus - Individual eventing

 

Aliaksandr Faminou (Martinie)

Alexander Zelenko (Carlo Grande Jr)

 

Athletes have the same name, but different (latinized) spelling?

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Well, this is pretty ironic.  Daniel Bluman will not be going to Tokyo because his horse was mistakenly listed as an American on the transfer deadline.

 

https://www.worldofshowjumping.com/en/News/No-Olympic-Games-for-Israel-s-Daniel-Bluman.html

 

Israeli team will be pretty weak now. Probably going for the 19th-20th place with China.

 

Good on FEI to deny his appeal though. Anything else would have been a travesty considering Italy and Slovakia had to pay for the same error.

 

@hckošice "The FEI also submitted exhibits of email exchanges indicating that they had always refused similar requests as that of Bluman." Yeah.... I can imagine Slovak federation was one example.

 

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@dcrohow many riders with MER thry have? 

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6 minutes ago, Adriano said:

@dcrohow many riders with MER thry have? 

6 athletes / 7 horses are listed on the nominated entries. But without the star power they had in 2018/19.

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British eventing team named. Oh boy. What a mess.

 

World Champion Ros Canter is not going. Not even as a reserve. Laura Collett got selected despite her spotty XC record (famous drive-by in Aachen, followed by taking a dive at the European Championships). Sure, she would make any other team, but this is still controversial.

 

And as expected, Kitty King stayed far away from Tokyo. Despite placing 2nd at the last selection-observation event. Not surprised. She has by far the smallest fandom / media frenzy of the lot.

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36 minutes ago, dcro said:

British eventing team named. Oh boy. What a mess.

 

World Champion Ros Canter is not going. Not even as a reserve. Laura Collett got selected despite her spotty XC record (famous drive-by in Aachen, followed by taking a dive at the European Championships). Sure, she would make any other team, but this is still controversial.

 

And as expected, Kitty King stayed far away from Tokyo. Despite placing 2nd at the last selection-observation event. Not surprised. She has by far the smallest fandom / media frenzy of the lot.

And yet somehow they have managed to select the world no.1 Oliver Townend and the world no.5 Tom McEwen, while the world no.3 Piggy March is the travelling reserve.

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27 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said:

And yet somehow they have managed to select the world no.1 Oliver Townend and the world no.5 Tom McEwen, while the world no.3 Piggy March is the travelling reserve.

World rankings are grouped by riders so they are pretty useless tbh (for the championships selection). Having multiple horses at higher levels helps your rank tremendeously.

 

Not to forget that Ros Canter dropped in rankings after taking a baby leave in 2019 (which is literally the only thing someone could have used against her, since her competition record aboard Allstar B has been spotless since winning the double world title...). Here we enter a pretty bleak territory.

 

This selection was always going to stir controversies, since there were too many options to choose from, so yeah... But still I can't fathom the fact that a new and relatively inexperienced combination (even if hyped) of Piggy March & Brookfield Inocent got ahead of Canter and indeed King.