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Anyone hyped about the new episode?

Good. I'm happy that Canada will qualify (for a change).

Central European League, Stage 6 (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia) Elena Sidneva (Fuhur) - 77.100% Regina Isachkina (Sun of May Life) - 74.925% Hanna Karasiova (Zodiak) - 74.600%

Yes, I think more than one should make it to the freestyle. Interestingly, all of the selected combinations are based in Mexico. On paper, Mexico should have an upper hand over Brazil among the big tour combinations. Del Valle could be particularly valuable, as she has been knocking on the 70% mark recently. Small tour portion is harder to predict, but it could probably go either way compared to Brazilian rivals for the team bronze and an Olympic spot...

As predicted, Thiem is already pissed/tired.

Yeah, Thiem will get crushed once he stops being able to keep this up.

Thiem

Well, I wouldn't know about that.

To be honest, it's quite innovative for athletics, even if unjustified. We should just get used to having changes in Olympic sports just for the sake of changes...

Nadal bitching about 2 decibels of noise...

Let's go Thiem!

@mrv86 Mexico named its dressage team. Big Tour Martha Fernada Del Valle, 30 years old, and Beduino LAM, 13-year-old Lusitano gelding (Dardo II x Urco) bred in Mexico and owned by Martha Bernadette Pujals, 50, and Curioso XXV, 18-year-old P.R.E. stallion (Dominante XVI x Vinatero III) owned by Bernadette Small Tour Enrique Palacios, 45, and Tinto, eight-year-old KWPN stallion owned by Enrique Antonio Rivera, 52, and Fite, 11-year-old gelding owned by Erika Baitenmann Reserve: Irvin Leina, 33, and Pabellón, 14-year-old gelding bred in Mexico and owned by Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional

Results site is not posting the team results, nor does it have a list of team members, so it really is impossible to follow the standings... And to make things worse, Pratoni stage is being used as a test event for Tokyo 2020 competition format, which is hard to understand even when you do have all of the results.

They removed the cross-country stream. Probably not enough cameras could be found around Pratoni.

And it's time for the epic day of cross-country at Bramham... Starting with CCI4*-Long... Continuing with CCI4*-Long for U25 riders... And ending with CCI4*-Short...

New jumping rankings are out too. Jumping simulation Group A - Group B -  Group C - Group F - Group G - Additional - Full rankings here. It's looking good for Latvia, although Lithuania interestingly had a stronger month and narrowed the gap.

[hide] Preliminary Round June 7th - June 20th, 2019 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group and 6 best 3rd ranked Teams among all Groups will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 7th 2019, h. 21:00 France 2 0 South Korea June 8th 2019, h. 21:00 Norway 2 0 Nigeria June 12th 2019, h. 15:00 Nigeria 1 2 South Korea June 12th 2019, h. 21:00 France 1 0 Norway June 17th 2019, h. 21:00 Nigeria 0 3 France June 17th 2019, h. 21:00 South Korea 0 2 Norway Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 8th 2019, h. 15:00 Germany 2 0 China June 8th 2019, h. 18:00 Spain 3 0 South Africa June 12th 2019, h. 18:00 Germany 1 0 Spain June 13th 2019, h. 21:00 South Africa 1 2 China June 17th 2019, h. 18:00 South Africa 0 3 Germany June 17th 2019, h. 18:00 China 0 2 Spain Group C Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 9th 2019, h. 13:00 Australia 1 1 Italy June 9th 2019, h. 15:30 Brazil 5 0 Jamaica June 13th 2019, h. 18:00 Australia 1 2 Brazil June 14th 2019, h. 18:00 Jamaica 0 3 Italy June 18th 2019, h. 21:00 Jamaica 0 4 Australia June 18th 2019, h. 21:00 Italy 1 3 Brazil Group D Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 9th 2019, h. 18:00 England 2 0 Scotland June 10th 2019, h. 18:00 Argentina 0 3 Japan June 14th 2019, h. 15:00 Japan 2 0 Scotland June 14th 2019, h. 21:00 England 2 0 Argentina June 19th 2019, h. 21:00 Japan 2 1 England June 19th 2019, h. 21:00 Scotland 1 0 Argentina Group E Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 10th 2019, h. 21:00 Canada 3 0 Cameroon June 11th 2019, h. 15:00 New Zealand 1 2 Netherlands June 15th 2019, h. 15:00 Netherlands 2 0 Cameroon June 15th 2019, h. 21:00 Canada 1 0 New Zealand June 20th 2019, h. 18:00 Netherlands 1 1 Canada June 20th 2019, h. 18:00 Cameroon 0 0 New Zealand Group F Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 11th 2019, h. 18:00 Chile 0 3 Sweden June 11th 2019, h. 21:00 United States 4 1 Thailand June 16th 2019, h. 15:00 Sweden 3 0 Thailand June 16th 2019, h. 18:00 United States 3 0 Chile June 20th 2019, h. 21:00 Sweden 1 2 United States June 20th 2019, h. 21:00 Thailand 1 2 Chile [/hide]

I don't know what that is, but nothing can be as bad as introducing a completely mindless competition format and naming it Dynamic New Athletics (DNA). Nothing.

What about calling everything "DNA"? As pretentious as it gets.

Exciting to see Zimbabwe in 2nd place after day 1 of dressage at Bramham (arguably the most competitive annual 4* event). http://www.bdwp.co.uk/bra/19/

Our women's handball has become disaster as soon as London 2012 was over. Too bad they didn't repay the historic success by actually investing a bit into the sport

Live stream for Eventing Nations Cup - FEI youtube channel (you can bookmark that ). Live scoring will probably appear somewhere on pratonieventing.com.

West Indies flag needs to be added immediately. I bet it would be more useful than Zanzibar.

I'm more surprised that someone from South Dakota won.

Pratoni del Vivaro is set to host the second stage this weekend. will participate.