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Huge PB/NR of almost 80% in the freestyle for Vanagaite & Nabab. @Bearas https://results.equestrian-hub.com/show/155543/dressage/2313036

Three teams are entered: Czech and Hungarian selections are already known. Team Czechia Pavel Brezina (Cona Cia) Miloslav Prihoda Jr (Ferreolus Lat) Matej Sukdolak (Qaid) Miroslav Trunda (Trnka-Ruf) Team Hungary Noemi Viola Doerfer (Crystal Barney) Balasz Keizinger (Clover) Imre Toth (Zypresse) Poland remains the qualification favorite. Both Czechia and Hungary have interesting teams, but they will need a mistake from Poland, which is always possible in eventing.

Dressage Group A - Group B - Group C - Groups D/E - Group F - Group G - Overall -

I don't get this. Sure it's not Loreen or Italy, but I can't see Mama ŠČ! getting close to zero there.

Olympic ranking qualification simulation as of April 30th... Eventing Group A - Group B - Group C - Groups D/E - Group F - Group G - Overall - Jumping Group A - Group B - Group C - Groups D/E - Group F - Group G - Overall -

Tamie Smith & Mai Baum win the Kentucky Three Day Event - #BestWeekendAllYear. Heck yes! First home champion since 2008 and really a huge win for Californian eventing community. It has been really exciting to follow Tamie's rise in eventing, which pretty much started when I also started following eventing more regularly (right around Rio 2016).

An important MER for Sukdolak. Czechia will be able to field a team now to challenge Poland for the team quota.

Dressage riders Elena Starr (RUS) and Olga Safronova (BLR) have switched to and , respectively.

Nur-Sultan is Astana again. As proven by the logo too.

Great, we will be getting the World Boxing World Boxing Championships thread then soon.

They've passed on the women's event each time. And the men's team is just too competitive to reject an Olympic spot, wherever it may come from.

Kenya has had more than their fair share of free quotas. Hopefully SA will stay out this time... As for the women's event, Madagascar can most certainly defeat Kenya to grab the reallocated quota from SA.

Wow, Team Alpecin must have consulted Cavendish for their dirty move on Degenkolb.

Slightly disappointed they didn't go for the 2x35 km option, just to have 70 km walking event at the Olympics instead of 50 km which was deemed too long. Heck, I would have preferred to have a nonsense mixed individual 35 km race with team medals only as opposed to this.

Way too late for any of that. Zarco got exactly what he wanted, the Olympic experience.

Final I results... https://www.longinestiming.com/equestrian/2023/fei-world-cup-finals-omaha-omaha-ne/resultlist_101.html And the overall standings... https://results.hippodata.de/2023/2295/docs/omaha_2023_-_standings_after_wcf_1.pdf Final II is scheduled for today.

Grand Prix results... https://www.longinestiming.com/equestrian/2023/fei-world-cup-finals-omaha-omaha-ne/resultlist_200.html

Grand Prix is in progress. Zweistra scored 73% and is in fact the only one above 70%. Still, some fairly clean and fun to watch tests were delivered by the surprise WC finalists (Due Boje, Verwimp, Chew).

While the competition is on the upwards trajectory, Hungary still stands a good chance. Benedek Pachl and Jazmin Yom Tov are strong team leaders, and there is still enough time left for someone between Aniko Losonczy, Anita Schmidt, Nikolett Szalai or Csaba Szokola to step up.

Susanne Krohn has declared for Poland. refugee Olga Safronova did too. Looks like Poland is turning every stone in an attempt to claim the Group C team quota in dressage. It's set to be quite a battle between as it stands!

Olympic ranking qualification simulation for jumping as of March 31st... Dressage Group A - Group B - Group C - Groups D/E - Group F - Group G - Overall - Finland is already lagging behind in the Group A. They will get a free quota if either NOR or DEN qualify a team which is possible this time. So far so good for Luxembourg. Curiously, the Swiss powerhouse is out of it at the moment. But still it's very early and they will qualify a team anyways.

Portugal hasn't qualified anyone for the men's 50 m free since 2004 and now they get full quota just like that.

Olympic ranking qualification simulation for eventing as of March 31st... Dressage Group A - Group B - Group C - Groups D/E - Group F - N/A Group G - Overall - Reallocation (provisional) -

Olympic ranking qualification simulation for dressage as of March 31st... Dressage Group A - Group B - Group C - Groups D/E - Group F - Group G - Overall -

@JoshMartini007 Welcome to the British eventing season. A lot withdrew after dressage in Thoresby, but probably this is not going to be the case in the equally huge Burnham Market later on this month.