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Well, as I expected.

 

I'm happy for Australia and New Zealand. They should be interested to host eventing now, which would be awesome. After all, Australia hosted it in 1986, final edition before first WEG.

 

It's incredible, they have generations of incredible riders, but some of them haven't competed at home in decades!

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And of course, the General Assembly ended with a whole bunch of new rules being adopted. It's getting to the point of being beyond ridiculous, with rules getting tweaked EVERY YEAR in recent times.

 

For example, missing a flag on cross-country jump will no longer give you 50 penalties, but only 15. So, for the first time in forever, missing a flag is less of a fault then good old-fashioned refusal. :wacko: Missing a flag used to be penalized with elimination, but then in 2016 they introduced 50-penalty ruling, which turned out to be a joke anyway, with penalties often getting dubiously removed on appeals. Especially if you are an "important rider". But then during this summer Piggy French didn't have her 50 pens removed (there must have been some very strong evidence), and immediately everyone started complaining about 50 penalties being too big, because such things can NOT be happening to British team riders. :)

 

Among other new rulings, FEI suddenly felt like introducing a new rule for eventing show jumping too. One time penalty will be now given for every two seconds over the time allowed, instead of every second like it was basically since forever.

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