Equestrian FEI World Games 2018

[Jur 689]

hace 20 minutos, OlympicIRL said:

 

Typical

Awaiting another Olympic qualification disaster as is the norm.

Me too

[dcro 10,210]

Deslauries destroys a nice round with a refusal and fence down on final two obstacles...

[dcro 10,210]

15 minutes ago, Jur said:

Me too

 

Spain should just be looking at next year's Nations Cup final, for which Barcelona seemingly has unlimited subscription, making Spain qualify by default. Most of the NC finalists should be already qualified at that point...

[dcro 10,210]

are just about the biggest overperformers so far.

[dcro 10,210]

Another round, another cheap rail for Mexico. Unbelieveable.

[dcro 10,210]

I just realized that the first fence, which O'Shea took down, is a triple bar!! OMG, nobody ever makes mistakes on triple bars.

Edited September 19, 2018 by dcro

[dcro 10,210]

Horvath had such an awful approach to the first fence, he basically jumped it from a stand-still. And guess what? It didn't fall, because triple bar. Irish bad luck in show jumping is a true Oscar-worthy material.

[OlympicIRL 5,660]

7 minutes ago, dcro said:

Horvath had such an awful approach to the first fence, he basically jumped it from a stand-still. And guess what? It didn't fall, because triple bar. Irish bad luck in show jumping is a true Oscar-worthy material.

 

It's one for the horror category . And it always culminates in the most cruel fashion too where we almost make it, but miss out by 0.01 or something. Even Cian O'Connor's surprise bronze at London 2012 came with 2 cruel twists.... 0.02 over the time for a time penalty (thus denying him the chance of gold) and then the last fence down in the jump-off for the silver

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

1 minute ago, OlympicIRL said:

 

It's one for the horror category . And it always culminates in the most cruel fashion too where we almost make it, but miss out by 0.01 or something. Even Cian O'Connor's surprise bronze at London 2012 came with 2 cruel twists.... 0.02 over the time for a time penalty (thus denying him the chance of gold) and then the last fence down in the jump-off for the silver

 

 

 

Don't forget the 2015 Europeans, when that course worker suddenly felt a strange need to pass just in front of rapidly approaching Cian O'Connor.

[OlympicIRL 5,660]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Don't forget the 2015 Europeans, when that course worker suddenly felt a strange need to pass just in front of rapidly approaching Cian O'Connor.

 

That was absolutely sick and a disgrace really. He had the next fence down and that cost them qualification.... and that fence hadn't fallen all day so it was very unfair. And remember, they just missed out to Sweden at the WEG in 2014 for the last qualification spot by a tiny margin, so yeah... I'm pretty numb to showjumping disasters at this stage, it just comes with the territory of being an Irish fan.