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No, Tyler Hamilton's twin brother.

[hide] Knockout Round December 14th - December 16th, 2018 4 Nations, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 14th 2018, h. 17:30 Russia 4 Romania December 14th 2018, h. 21:00 France 2 Netherlands [/hide]

Good news, but I don't think it will change much except the name.

By the way, here is an interesting read about what happens in the final months of Olympic ranking periods. Article is from before London 2012, but basically it's the same circus every time. http://www.eurodressage.com/2012/03/21/olympic-typhoid-fever

FEI has published the lists of all events that will count for individual qualification rankings. Dressage Eventing Jumping 2019 will be the Olympic qualification season, so of course the usual suspects (Ukraine...) are back with their pop-up events in Zhashkiv and such places. I love how some countries are able to turn an Olympic qualification into a pizza delivery procedure, and get away with it again and again. Also the ranking rules have been published... Dressage Eventing Jumping

[hide] Knockout Round December 10th - December 16th, 2018 12 Nations, Quarterfinal Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +5:30) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 12th 2018, h. 16:45 Argentina England December 12th 2018, h. 19:00 Australia France December 13th 2018, h. 16:45 India 1 Netherlands December 13th 2018, h. 19:00 Germany 1 Belgium [/hide]

However, judging by single heat rankings, Muze is a bit of a reckless driver...

Two Latvian Olympians in athletics (Grabuste and Muze) competed.

De Niro is the top dressage stallion for the 4th year in a row. http://www.eurodressage.com/2018/12/10/de-niro-tops-2018-wbfsh-dressage-sire-ranking

[hide] Konockout Round December 10th - December 16th, 2018 12 Nations, Quarterfinal Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Quarterfinal Play-Offs Date & Time (GMT +5:30) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 10th 2018, h. 16:45 France 3 China December 10th 2018, h. 19:00 England 1 New Zealand December 11th 2018, h. 17:00 Belgium 3 Pakistan December 11th 2018, h. 19:00 Netherlands 3 Canada [/hide]

Western European League, Stage 7 (La Coruna, Spain) Edwina Tops-Alexander (Winchester) - 0/0/42.26 Emanuele Gaudiano (Chalou) - 0/0/43.01 Ludger Beerbaum (Cool Feeling) - 0/0/43.26 Full results... WEL Standings

Group B >> Group A

Western European League, Stage 5 (Salzburg, Austria) Benjamin Werndl (Daily Mirror) - 80.790% Patrik Kittel (Delatio) - 80.010% Dorothee Schneider (Faustus) - 79.730% Full results... WEL Standings...

Virtual general standings at this stage: Dunadan 8938 Henry_Leon 7276 Pablita 7268 dcro 7227 chrischi08 6928 Wanderer 6548 ady48 6533 juliosilva 6349 Aaand, I'm about to lose a podium position in the very last stages...

Taubitz won.

Eitberger is sliding like an amateur.

Yes, Collins should still be able to qualify. This is mostly nice news for Latin America, as now they will probably have 3 spots instead of 2. I think the spots will be decided between , with nobody except Dominican Republic being very safe...

FEI I don't know how it's possible, but again they made a late change to qualification system (this time in dressage). And this time they can't even write it properly. They say that Groups D & E will be combined, BUT whoever corrected the document crossed Group C instead of E. https://inside.fei.org/system/files/Tokyo 2020 - Qualification System - DRESSAGE - 30 November 2018.pdf

Horrific fall for Ashley Cain. It looked like she lost consciousness for a couple of seconds. Somehow she got up and completed.

All my remarks have been about how things are done, and not actual participants. If you have read the thread, you would have seen that I congratulated Mexico.

Just a clarification that I was not pitchforking because things didn't end up as I hoped.. If you read this thread you'd see that I never spoke against Algeria as host. I'm all for new users hosting, whoever it is, because: A) someone new will get a chance, B) other interested first timers will have a bigger chance next time. So everyone would be on a happy, level-playing field in much shorter time. Pitchfork out.

But I will refrain from further comments on the subject. Apparently it's always easy to criticize those who speak their mind, even if in this case I was just bringing up the actual facts. So you can store your pitchforks.

Why? Mexico will host twice without winning. Barely. And there is also a little fact that Olympics are forced to be exclusive because money talks. This is a community musical contest, for crying out loud.