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Important rule change has been announced. Apparently, maximum one result per event will count towards the Olympic rankings in dressage. It cuts both ways. While those pop-up events in Ukraine should have less of an impact now, it's also a bad news for some Latin American riders. They have limited number of opportunities to gain points anyway, and now for example they can only take 1 of possible 3 results from the Pan American Games. This should help Bermuda though, since their rider is based in Europe.

Samodurova wins thanks to a clean skate. But, dear Lord, that was one incredibly childlish program. It turns out that Zagitova under rotated 3 jumps and downgraded 1, according to the judges scorecard.

54 technical score, ouch. Must have been tons of under rotations.

Zagitova makes a mess on half of her jumps. She'll probably win anyway, but are those signs of growth spur? Quite possibly.

Ok, what's up with random Austrians winning championships.

Winterberg weather coming into play? It looks that way.

And it's not even Taubitz that wins.

Eitberger is the leader despite hitting walls left and right. This is going to be a fun weekend.

Huefner going for another medal.

7 sounds too few. They should add women's doubles, relays for men-only, women-only, doubles-only. And also sprints for all relays. That's some 18 events, enough to play German anthem on the loop for 24 hours.

For the record, doubles sprint final was already held. Women's starts in a minute.

Franz's knee is gone.

T/M made a huge mess from their combination jump. The French should have won by even bigger margin. And they would have without dubious removal of levels on their twist lift, death spiral, as well as an interesting deduction for exceeding time limit.

Italians were robbed. What else is new.

P/S-K break 100 points in free skate.

I suppose Reddit is the only really popular forum-alike place these days? I never logged in there, but I guess that's an interesting example for the forum management.

Probably also better. I mean, users from Mongolia? Paraguay? Iraq? Guatemala? Yemen?? That's science fiction now.

Totallympics was really diverse back in those days...

We also need to replace 100 m with 34 m dash. I don't care for 3-digit distances.

Nice skate for Davide Lewton Brain of Monaca.

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Again the formula with easiest group for 2nd/7th team, lol. Hungary will probably become "7th" and then qualify through the easiest group. What a lucky break for them.