Equestrian FEI World Games 2018

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Btw here is the final episode of Live@TRYON. It was a nice one.

 

 

 

 

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First two drivers go some 30 seconds over the optimum time for cones. Now that time is actually difficult.

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Degrieck posts the best round so far with only 11.64 penalties. Should help the Belgian team medal aspirations.

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Clear for Bram Chardon. Wow, that looked impossible initially.

 

Maybe it's not too late for the Dutch team gold, despite a major flop yesterday...

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Drivers are by the way supposed to look like they jumped out of time machine.

 

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And USA upsets the Netherlands for the team gold.

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Team Driving

United States - 353.39

Netherlands - 356.79

Belgium - 364.09

 

Individual Driving

Boyd Exell - 154.14

Chester Weber - 163.38

Edouard Simonet - 174.15

 

And that's a wrap. Congrats to medallists, especially Boyd for putting Australia on the medal table in the very final event.

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Final medal table... Endurance and dressage freestyle were cancelled, what almost certainly removed at least Spain from here.

 

 

Some highs...

- Germany won the medal table for the first time since their home Games in 2006.

- USA's most successful Games so far

- Italy and Denmark added 3/2 golds to their all-time medal collections that had only 1 gold each

- Brazil, Ireland and Sweden entered the medal table for the first time since 1998, 2002 and 2002, respectively

- First ever medals for Latvia and Japan. Latvia is also the smallest delegation that will be bringing home a medal (1 athlete)

 

Some lows...

- Great Britain lost 7 medals compared to Normandy, Netherlands lost 8 medals (however their para-dressage performed outstandingly well, winning 9/10 Dutch medals...)

- France lost 4 medals compared to Normandy

- Canada sent the largest delegation that failed to take a medal (34 athletes)

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9 out of 10 Dutch medals coming from para-dressage, not sure if that's something to cheer about

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39 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

9 out of 10 Dutch medals coming from para-dressage, not sure if that's something to cheer about

 

They made a huge improvement, and became the first nation to defeat Great Britain in history of the team event, at any Olympics/Worlds/Europeans...

 

Also a moment when Rixt van der Horst realized she's won an individual gold, caught live during Live@TRYON, was one of the most heartwarming moments of the Games.