Equestrian Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[dcro 10,210]

Canadian short list for jumping...

 

Erynn Ballard 

Mario Deslauriers 

Tiffany Foster 

Eric Lamaze 

Amy Millar 

 

One of them will go. The last chance of re-taking a team slot evaporated last week when the Chinese confirmed their MERs.

[intoronto 5,643]

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/nicole-walker-sports-court-olympics-1.6013513

[dcro 10,210]

On 02/05/2021 at 22:06, dcro said:

Dressage

Unconfirmed MERs (individual) -

Possible reallocation (individual) -

68% for Ellen Brigitte Farbrot & Red Rebel today... Their previous Grand Prix scores were abysmal, but looks like Red Rebel learned to piaffe during lockdown.

 

Too bad. With this, the chances of Slovak reallocation went from 'good' to 'unlikely'.

[dcro 10,210]

Usman Khan is competing in Sydney this weekend.

 

He has a little wiggle room left. Should he fail to score under 45 in dressage (again), he can withdraw before cross-country and re-route to either Naracoorte or Tamborine next week. But, if he starts the cross-country and fails to obtain MER, it will be game over. Mandatory rest period is two weeks, even if you retire after clearing just one obstacle.

 

[NearPup 3,051]

On 04/05/2021 at 15:28, intoronto said:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/nicole-walker-sports-court-olympics-1.6013513

Some small consolation prize.

[dcro 10,210]

Khan scored 13% better than in Robertson few weeks ago... No idea what happened then, but today's score of 32.60 puts him past the point of no return.

 

Meanwhile, Collins obtained 1/2 MERs on a new horse Chuppy Checker in Madrid today (68%).

[dcro 10,210]

No Olympics* for Usman Khan. He jumped clear but was 6 (!) seconds too slow. 1:21 behind the optimum time while 1:15 is the maximum allowed for MER. Unbelieveble! 

 

https://www.nominate.com.au/equest/nsw/results/syd3de21/XC_2104_CCI4-s.html

 

Reallocation provisionally goes to Zimbabwe (MER not confirmed yet), and after that it would be Austria.

 

* Theoretically, he still has a chance if he sets off to Europe immediately and competes in Italy in two weeks. Even if he already had a sponsor for transportation, I highly doubt this would be logistically feasible. Surely not.

[Fly_like_a_don 1,090]

@dcro Why these MER are even required ? Shouldn't qualification be enough or MER should be in qualifying only like I hate this sport but this qualification is absolutely ridiculous. India qualifying or not is a different thing but this MER is absolutely nonsense. 

[dcro 10,210]

16 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

@dcro Why these MER are even required ? Shouldn't qualification be enough or MER should be in qualifying only like I hate this sport but this qualification is absolutely ridiculous. India qualifying or not is a different thing but this MER is absolutely nonsense. 

It's not ridiculous. To earn (Olympic) ranking points at some competiton, you must obtain MER at that same competition, otherwise you will get 0 points even if you won. Therefore, everyone who qualified for the Olympics must have had their MERs in order (at least partly).

 

Specifically, after the 2019 season, this left only India and South Africa without full MERs, since they scored their points only in CCI4*-S competitions, but not CCI4*-L.

 

But then the postponement came and FEI asked everyone to re-confirm their CCI4*-S MER in either 2020 or 2021.

 

Usman Khan is a specific scenario. He had his MER on another horse which died suddenly. He then got a new horse with whom he had to start from scratch (this includes MERs at CCI2* and CCI3*, without which starting at CCI4* events is not even allowed).

 

So it's not neither shocking not unfair. Wildly inconsistent dressage scores, slow cross-country... Those are all symptoms of an ungelled partnership. It was to be expected, really.

[Dolby 735]

17 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

@dcro Why these MER are even required ? Shouldn't qualification be enough or MER should be in qualifying only like I hate this sport but this qualification is absolutely ridiculous. India qualifying or not is a different thing but this MER is absolutely nonsense. 

To add to what @dcro said, ideally speaking those who didn’t fulfill MER requirement at end of qualification period should not be qualified, like it was team events. But, the additional time that individuals got to confirm their MER is to increase number of NOCs at Olympics. Basically, some leeway for universality quotas. (Lets be honest, these continental quotas are like universality quotas only).