Equestrian Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[dcro 10,210]

Well, things are not looking bright for Norwegian dressage.

 

Antonia Jacobsen & Danny have one MER result from last year, however Danny has since been retired. This leaves them with nothing. Norwegian Horse Festival is scheduled for next week however, so it will be interesting to see if someone can obtain 66% MER.

[dcro 10,210]

Look who is on the entry list for Cascais CDI3*.

[JoshMartini007 2,538]

I guess we'll wait and see if he has what it takes to become the oldest Olympic athlete.

[Shravan Kumar 109]

Pakistan equestrian refuses to change name of his horse. 

https://thebridge.in/pakistani-equestrian-refuses-to-change-name-of-horse-from-azad-kashmir/

[dcro 10,210]

Something that I forgot to share here... FEI has decided to shorten the Olympic cross-country course to just 8 minutes.

 

It will not be the shortest Olympic course ever (they already did the same in Hong Kong), but nevertheless it's disappointing... The course will now be easier for sure, but optimum time should be harder to attain, as it was in 2008 when nobody came within 20 seconds of it. It's because when they shorten the course, they mostly remove galloping sections rather than jumps.

 

This also means we may see some horses that tend to struggle with stamina (Kim Severson's Cooley Cross Border definitely comes to mind...).

 

[Olympian1010 7,977]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

Something that I forgot to share here... FEI has decided to shorten the Olympic cross-country course to just 8 minutes.

 

It will not be the shortest Olympic course ever (they already did the same in Hong Kong), but nevertheless it's disappointing... The course will now be easier for sure, but optimum time should be harder to attain, as it was in 2008 when nobody came within 20 seconds of it. It's because when they shorten the course, they mostly remove galloping sections rather than jumps.

 

This also means we may see some horses that tend to struggle with stamina (Kim Severson's Cooley Cross Border definitely comes to mind...).

 

Damn, that’s less fun for those of us that will be on course 

[dcro 10,210]

On 04/02/2020 at 14:19, dcro said:

Norwegian Horse Festival is scheduled for next week however, so it will be interesting to see if someone can obtain 66% MER.

 

And to follow up on this - things are still not looking good.

 

https://online.equipe.com/en/class_sections/486318

 

Farbrot & Red Rebel have talent, but no piaffe/passage. Others are essentially amateurs anyway. I guess the last Norwegian hope could be Germany-based professional Isabel Freese, but only if free Olympic quota attracts her attention.

 

 

Meanwhile...

 

Based on this, we can assume that FEI has informed nations of their individual quota places this week. We shall soon know if there are any reallocations.

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

*BREAKING NEWS*

 

Qatar got disqualified from the Group F qualification event, so Morocco is now qualified...

 

Mathilda Karlsson lost a bunch of points from Villeneuve-Loubet. Her quota now goes to Hong Kong, while Sri Lanka is only the second reserve...

 

Following this, we effectivelly lose two participating nations. It's rather unfortunate, even though Morocco having a jumping team is a nice novelty.

Edited February 17, 2020 by dcro

[dcro 10,210]

FEI confirmed the individual qualifiers here.

 

https://inside.fei.org/system/files/Tokyo 2020 - Qualification System - DRESSAGE - 17February2020.pdf

https://inside.fei.org/system/files/Tokyo 2020 - Qualification System - EVENTING - 17February2020.pdf

https://inside.fei.org/system/files/Tokyo 2020 - Qualification System - JUMPING -17February2020.pdf

 

Some of these reserve lists make no sense whatsoever though. It's as if they were made using random pick generator or something.

 

They completely left out Italy in dressage (?). Malaysia and Greece are for some very weird reason listed as 1st and 2nd reserves for the overall Olympic rankings in dressage. Kazakhstan and Lithuania are magic reserves for eventing's Group C (if it stays like that, they will be really hoping for Russian blanket ban ).

[hckošice 14,836]

@dcro can you be so kind and please check if everything is correct now ? Did I miss anyone ?

 

Thanks