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Poland passed the 2nd inspection with flying colors.

If you won't to be on top ,do you need to do What people don't see! Yes, exactly.

Ireland has received an invitation to compete at this year's Aachen Nations cup... In dressage. That's sort of like having an Ethiopian 100m runner invited for Diamond League. By that I don't mean an undeserved invitation, but rather Ethiopia suddenly having a sprinter.

Standings after cross-country... 111.8 1153.7 2061.1

Standings after show jumping... 84.0 87.4 92.7 94.4 96.1 97.7 103.6 105.9 129.9

Yes, it REALLY is possible. Three nations from Group C can qualify in dressage. Russia will qualify a team for sure. Ukraine will get an individual almost certainly. And that leaves everyone else fighting for the third spot... Until now it looked like Belarus and Poland will be the favorites for the last ticket, but Bugan's 69% from today puts him right on-par with them. Keep in mind that this was Bugan's debut performance of 2019. It's common to see the scores improving with every new show during early season.

@hckosice What a result for Michael Bugan. Slovakia could be getting a WC podium tomorrow if he can repeat this. Additionally, he will get 203 Olympic qualifying points for today's performance.

Oh no, Kleniuk retired. Poland can't afford to have a problem anymore.

Spisak went exactly on the optimum time. What a combination! Poland will qualify, but make no mistake, they are the fastest improving eventing nation right now (together with Japan).

Markov eliminated. So now Poland just needs to survive on 3 riders to qualify. Individual Group C competition can still be quite intriguing, though.

Imre Toth went the wrong way. At least he rectified his mistake quickly.

Found the live stream.

Vysotskaya clear with 10 time. Pawlak clear with 6 time. Nemtsava officially withdrew, so Belarus is now officially out of this.

Warszawski went clear with 10.8 time.

Meh, Baborowko live stream seems to be broken, so all we have for the moment is the scoreboard.

Standings after cross-country... 118.6 121.3 135.3 173.6 Thailand did better than China today! Next up - 2nd horse inspection.

Chavatont's horse is something else.

Very late refusal for Lam. This just kills Hong Kong, unless someone gets eliminated completely.

Clears for Heffernan, Sun, Pitakanonda. Everyone with time penalties. Last rider rotation is about to start.

Refusal for Wannakool. Importantly, however, he completes the course.

Clear with time for Liang.

Clear and inside the time for Samran.

Bao eliminated after a fall. And just like that Chinese hopes are under serious threat.

Team competitors will begin to start in about 6 minutes, and all of them will be going back-to-back.