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Christer Egerstrom competed for Mexico at the 1984 Olympics. If he hadn't married a Costa Rican woman, then probably Mexico would have celebrated Olympic qualification here...

Is someone else having problems with Olympic channel? Stream seems to be lagging a lot today...

Live scores for Intermediate I.

I remembered this editorial piece on eliminations in dressage. It should be informative.

Camphire in Ireland hosted the latest stage this weekend. New Zealand won, in front of Ireland and Italy. After 4/7 stages Italy leads the season's standings with 290 points.

Athens hosted the Final of Europe's Division 2 this weekend. Norway won, and thus get promoted for the Division 1 next year. Together with 2nd placed Portugal, they advance to the Nations Cup Finals in Barcelona, which will serve as Olympic qualifier.

Meh. Panama and Suriname took no medals in taekwondo. Nicaragua is losing all of their 1541320 quarterfinals in boxing. And so on. It's really not going very well for smaller nations...

A horse is deemed unlevel when its hind legs are clearly not equally active. That usually gets detected in extended trot or half-pass when horse drags its feet, and then it's up to the president of the jury to ring the bell and stop the test. It's a sign of lameness (most commonly momentary lameness). As for the blood rule, if a spot of blood is detected on horse during or after the test, then the rider receives automatic elimination. Most of the time it happens when a horse bits its tongue, which is bad luck more than anything else. It only gets suspicious when it repeatedly happens to same rider... Three eliminations in one competition is very unusual though. I can't remember any competition that had more than one elimination. Therefore I'm assuming that the American judge was perhaps overly strict on levelness. I could almost guess that Beca would be the third eliminated rider. His horse has a really weak extended trot, which could make one question its soundness. But then again, I don't think he ever got eliminated for it, even if he usually receives very low marks.

Yeah, nice that he finishes with Nations cup victory. I guess it was somewhat expected, as he has been really quiet in 2019. Here's a report on his retirement - https://eventingnation.com/sir-mark-todd-announces-retirement-from-eventing/

Mark Todd has retired. This time for good.

Meh. Really poor schedule on Olympic channel today. Gymnastics will be the only thing that's worth watching.

Both Argentina and Chile had only three riders, so it was easier for them to get eliminated. Most likely their horses were not level, or they got eliminated for blood rule.

Standings after Day 1: 219.970% 219.828% 204.473% 202.246% 198.117% 188.677% EL EL It could hardly be any closer for gold. Meanwhile, Mexico is not that far behind, but it will be very hard to overcome this gap tomorrow. Their small tour combinations really dropped the ball.

Canadian judge massacred Losos de Muniz.

Moreira-Laliberte 71.419% Da Silva 67.304% Pujals 66.162% I'm afraid it's over for Mexico. Da Silva did very well, considering he got 63% at WEG last year.

Not that I know.

And as soon as they changed to big tour, live scoring started lagging. Probably the local scribers were left a bit confused.

Live results And I do mean actual live results. Where you can follow each movement score of each rider in live time.

These modern pentathlon horses have some very urban and youthful names.

I feel like I'm missing something here.

Oh, look, Olympic channel is broadcasting AIBA-sponsored boxing.

I mean... How?!

Mercado threw away both medal and quota after shooting 36.1 in first of the standing series.

Very good score for Dominguez. 72.441% for Baumert, again not matching Canada. I am expecting a big score for Lockman though.

Batchelder 71.441% Good news for Canada, as this score has to count.