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So really for @Olympian1010?

Joanna Pawlak & Fantastic Frieda are incredibly reliable jumping combination. That horse never encountered a problem on cross-country in her entire career, what is quite impressive. Pawel Spisak were top 20 at WEG last year, so very much another reliable combination. So it will really be up to Warszawski and/or Kleniuk to deliver steady clear rounds.

Standings after dressage... 93.0 112.2 114.0

Spisak ties his mentor Michael Jung, but still takes the lead thanks to higher collective marks.

Russian Vysotskaya got 51.1 penalties. Oh dear...

Zelenko eliminated in dressage (horse unlevel). They should just award this quota to Poland and be done with it.

Why don't you apply the discard score already? It's kind of hard to follow the standings without it.

It's a huge week for eventing. Aside from Group C and Groups F/G Olympic qualifiers, this week will also see the start of the 2019 Nations Cup season. These nations will take part at the season opener in Houghton hall... Top ranked nation in the season's rankings will receive a team slot for Tokyo 2020. Houghton Hall results can be followed here. Dressage has already started.

Start list is out for tomorrow. We have a late individual entry - Imre Toth. Once again it's significant since this competition offers a lot of individual ranking points for Group C nations. Competition will however also be open to non-Group C individuals. Most notably we have double Olympic champion Michael Jung himself making a long format debut aboard Chipmunk. Chipmunk is the horse on which Julia Krajewski lead dressage at last year's WEG. It's a new ride for Jung this year, and, yeah, this may as well be a debut performance of the 2020 Olympic champions... Polish team has been selected - Warszawski, Pawlak, Spisak, Kleniuk.

Impressive consistency from Hong Kong today though.

They should be available here, eventually (under CCIO4*-L section). Group C qualifier will be streamed here - https://www.clipmyhorse.tv/en_EU/.

Hong Kong should normally do better than Thailand on cross-country day, but that may not be the case this time. Even if they don't incur any eliminations, they will still presumably ride under team orders and rack up quite a few time penalties... Team orders are very common in eventing championships, much unlike the popular opinion that the team event is just adding the individual scores... Btw, the event is being streamed on the official website - https://www.saumur.org/en/

Why? Dutch will miss out for sure now. Not like the chance was much better with 48 teams.

Screw it, money beats enemies. Or maybe by "willing" they mean they tried to steal the whole thing from Qatar.

Morinari Watanabe? Hello Japanese medals.

Start list is out for tomorrow. Team members are marked with an asterix (*). For whatever reason, Japan will also take part in the team event. https://www.worldsporttiming.com/live/read/index.php?config=801

Didn't she failed a doping test last week or something?

I think order of go does matter. Judging tends to get softer as the competition goes on, it's the natural bias.

You don't even have to open threads anymore?

Makes so much sense to decide 9/12 qualifiers 3 years before...

Schedule Wednesday, 22.05.2019 10.00 - Horse Inspection Thursday, 23.05.2019 13.30 – 18.00 – Dressage CCIO3*-L Saturday, 25.05.2019 10.00 - 12.00 Cross CCIO3*-L Sunday, 26.05.2019 16.45 – 18.00 - Show jumping CCIO3*-L

Schedule Thursday, 23.05.2019 13.00 - Horse Inspection CCIO4*-L 17.30 – 18.30 – Traning CCIO4*-L - dressage arena Friday, 24.05.2019 11.30 – 14.30 - Dressage CCIO4*- L The prize of Roman Roszkiewicz, LOTTO Trophy Saturday, 25.05.2019 13.10 - 14.50 Cross CCIO4*-L The prize of Roman Roszkiewicz, LOTTO Trophy Sunday, 26.05.2019 8.00 – Horse Inspection CCIO4*-L 13.50 – 14.50 - Show jumping CCIO4*-L The prize of Roman Roszkiewicz, LOTTO Trophy

300 hours worth of days sounds way cooler. Kida, you know.

One thing people probably didn't know is that Niki Lauda flew Elisabeth Max-Theuerer's horse to Moscow by himself in 1980, when Austrian federation called for a boycott and refused to support Max-Theurer's trip. So yeah, he was a pretty cool guy.

Brief overview of the Compiegne stage... It was a rare away from home victory for Great Britain, although not surprisingly. They did have the strongest team on paper. Sweden finished 2nd, while placed 3rd with rather an interesting team... As things stand, France can hardly be considered to be a frontrunner for a team place for Tokyo. Hell, they barely finished ahead of Switzerland at their home event, which is rather unbelieveable given the current state of Swiss dressage... If France had a bad weekend, then Belgium had an absolute disaster,,. They sent more or less their strongest team, and yet they were way, way behind everyone.. While Simon Missiaen got some unbelieveably low scores, probably the lowest point of Belgian week came earlier today when Isabel Cool retired her mount Aranco V, due to an apparent injury... All results from Compiegne can be found here.