Equestrian FEI World Games 2018

[dcro 10,210]

Can't believe it starts next week. 

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

Interesting read about show jumper Lisa Williams. Unlike the other South African representatives who are longstanding citizens of Europe/North America, Lisa is based in South Africa. And indeed, transporting a horse from South Africa to Europe is a herculean effort...

 

http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/from-south-africa-to-weg-lisa-williams-seemingly-impossible-journey

 

Her horse had to spend 3 months on Mauritius!!! She literally trained on a driveway.

 

And to think that some (privileged) nations refuse to send people just because they can't win medals...

[dcro 10,210]

And here for comparison we have a story of rider based in Europe.

 

http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/south-african-dressage-rider-gretha-ferreira-heads-to-weg-aboard-show-jumping-convert

[heywoodu 16,004]

13 hours ago, dcro said:

Interesting read about show jumper Lisa Williams. Unlike the other South African representatives who are longstanding citizens of Europe/North America, Lisa is based in South Africa. And indeed, transporting a horse from South Africa to Europe is a herculean effort...

 

http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/from-south-africa-to-weg-lisa-williams-seemingly-impossible-journey

 

Her horse had to spend 3 months on Mauritius!!! She literally trained on a driveway.

 

And to think that some (privileged) nations refuse to send people just because they can't win medals...

Wasn't South Africa refusing Olympic quota because they didn't deem teams good enough?  

[dcro 10,210]

18 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Wasn't South Africa refusing Olympic quota because they didn't deem teams good enough?  

 

Well yeah, they have practiced such measures too. Still, looking at what Lisa had to do to reach Europe, it amazes me how some federations are simply too cheap or something to buy couple of extra plane tickets.

 

I was talking about WEG in general too, like France deciding to withdraw from dressage because they didn't believe they can win an Olympic spot. That caused a lot of anger among their riders, who've been building for WEG for a whole year.

[dcro 10,210]

Sneak peak of the cross-country course.

 

 

 

 

I assume that one of those squirreles will need a haircut.

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All-time medal table:

 

Spoiler

 

I wonder if we could have a first time medalist in Tryon. I guess these nations should have a chance:

 

Bahrain - endurance

Colombia - jumping, vaulting

Egypt - jumping

Israel - jumping

Japan - eventing, para-dressage

Latvia - para-dressage

Mexico - jumping

Oman - endurance

Uruguay - endurance

 

Some of these are very much outsiders, but hopefully at least one of them willl make it!

[hckošice 15,520]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

All-time medal table:

 

Who won that SVK bronze ?

[dcro 10,210]

23 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

Who won that SVK bronze ?

 

Ladislav Majdlen in men's vaulting at Aachen 2006.

[heywoodu 16,004]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Ladislav Majdlen in men's vaulting at Aachen 2006.

Quick, make vaulting Olympic