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Merel Blom has a drive-by at the ditch.

If someone is looking for a live stream, SVT1 will broadcast complete action from today (Swedish VPN is required)...

Interesting.

Mexico is being the dominant team so far. They lead 2:0.

EquiRatings has an interesting prediction centre for these championships. https://prediction-centre.equiratings.com/competitions/2019_CH-EU_0006_C_S_01_01/ Sadly, they don't have such predictions for team competition. EDIT: Well, they have this.

Yoko Ono didn't compete.

Lovely battle between Gorša and Jany... It ends with the right winner.

Jany did it! Also quota for Australia.

Apparently men's 5000m will be a straight final with 31 runners.

Hellenbrand is going well. @heywoodu What does he have to do to satisy the royal highness of the Dutch Olympic Committee?

Team standings after Dressage... 68.90 85.70 90.90 92.80 94.10 94.20 95.10 97.90 107.60 115.30 118.00 1071.70 Big lead for Germany, but their cross-country form has been suspect for years now. Belgium started really well, but despite all the hype, I don't think it will make difference. All of them are just so slow on cross-country. Switzerland was just terrible in dressage. Finland sadly got 1000 penalties due to Swindells' withdrawal. It's a sad end for the first ever eventing team.

Nigeria is missing.

Quotas won today. Men's K1 200 m - Women's K1 200 m - Women's C1 200 m -

Looks like Jany should make the final for Slovakia.

2x28.8 yesterday, 2x33.3 today. Belgian team is possessed.

Oh, right, I thought Belarus was given CZE reallocation. So looks like Argentina should have qualified after all.

So the Argentine athlete was spreading fake news.

Chad and Tunisia in archery.

Egypt won the mixed team event, meaning Chad gets their individual place. Only their fourth ever Olympic sport.

This is from horse inspection. Schivo is first from right, followed by Panizzon. Ugolotti is in the middle, and then Roman at the end. Roman during dressage yesterday.

Today we have the decisive match - vs ,

We had two crews in Rio, and both won medals. Instead of using that success to build up a program, looks like we can only hope to have the exact same athletes next year. It's always the same old story in our sport. We either have extremely dedicated individuals or weekend amateurs, and nothing in between.

Meanwhile, as always, all Italians are competing in their respective uniforms. Pietro Roman - police Arianna Schivo - carabinieri Giovanni Ugolotti - millitary Vittoria Panizzon - air force

Sub-30 test for Daniels & Rioghan Rua. That horse once scored 50+ test in dressage, and not so long ago...