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Top 3 overall scores.

Two down for Krajewski. Also Ferguson. Honor Me just can't do sub-35 dressage or clear show jumping. Out-and-out cross-country horse. Nothing bad with that, but XC was simply not hard enough.

My heart still breaks for Burto. He must get an individual medal soon. Preferrably gold. Another clear for AUS.

RIP Netherlands NZ already up two places.

Senra Chover needs to buy a lottery ticket today. He cluttered like 10 fences, and only 3 came down...

Clear for Rose. Australia still on the way for a quadruple clear.

RIP USA Actually RIP Brazil... Since now it's going to be pretty impossible for them to qualify a team. For the first time since 1992.

Welp, no triple clear for NZ...

Trish Ryan makes the first double clear. Good sign for the Irish.

Individual https://live.rechenstelle.de/2018/tryon/leaderboard01.html Team https://live.rechenstelle.de/2018/tryon/nationcup01.html

Cricket round for Wettstein. It really sounds like the end of the World when horses start punching literally every single fence.

Zabala-Goetschel makes the first jumping clear! But w/ time faults. All horses have looked very fresh so far, so there's really no excuse for a poor performance...

Another bad phase for poor old Coleman. 3 fences down on a horse that really must have jumped clear...

Last placed athlete Vogg is only 50+ penalties behind second-to-last athlete. That's what happens when you collect 90 (!!) jumping penalties over cross-country.

It should be a tight battle between and even for the final 3 Olympic spots. are well in front, so it would take a disaster for them to lose a spot. Although saying that, the French are definitely not the best of jumpers... Australians are probably the best rated show jumpers, so I don't see them losing a spot. Germany and Sweden are somewhat worse, but not too bad overall. Americans may struggle to have more than one clear. Dutch are probably the worst jumpers of the lot, so they have an outside chance at best. New Zealand can bring 3 clears. Canada is not that far, but they aren't particularly consistent jumpers either (aside from Colleen Loach). Show jumping will have 4* technical difficulty, compared to 3* cross-country, so it could easily be overinflutential... But by the same token, there was a rest day in between so the level of jumping might improve.

[hide] Preliminary Round September 22nd - September 25th, 2018 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals, the 2nd and the 3rd Nations from each Group will qualify for Quarterfinals Play-Offs Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 22nd 2018, h. 13:30 South Korea 22 France September 22nd 2018, h. 17:30 Greece 12 Canada September 23rd 2018, h. 11:30 Canada 16 South Korea September 23rd 2018, h. 17:30 France 18 Greece September 25th 2018, h. 13:30 South Korea 7 Greece September 25th 2018, h. 20:30 Canada 17 France Group B Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 22nd 2018, h. 11:30 Australia 27 Nigeria September 22nd 2018, h. 14:00 Turkey 19 Argentina September 23rd 2018, h. 11:00 Argentina 25 Australia September 23rd 2018, h. 20:30 Nigeria 25 Turkey September 25th 2018, h. 11:30 Australia 8 Turkey September 25th 2018, h. 17:30 Argentina 7 Nigeria Group C Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 22nd 2018, h. 20:00 Japan 19 Spain September 22nd 2018, h. 20:30 Puerto Rico 17 Belgium September 23rd 2018, h. 13:30 Belgium 16 Japan September 23rd 2018, h. 20:00 Spain 22 Puerto Rico September 25th 2018, h. 11:00 Japan 10 Puerto Rico September 25th 2018, h. 20:00 Belgium 16 Spain Group D Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 22nd 2018, h. 11:00 Latvia 7 China September 22nd 2018, h. 18:00 United States 39 Senegal September 23rd 2018, h. 14:00 Senegal 23 Latvia September 23rd 2018, h. 18:00 China 28 United States September 25th 2018, h. 14:00 Senegal 23 China September 25th 2018, h. 18:00 Latvia 28 United States [/hide]

Yesterday in Tryon...

I don't follow too much of marathon swimming, but I think these two Canadian stages are always held during either Olympics, Worlds, or Europeans. It's quite ridiculous.

Because why make it easy when you can make it complicated? "2nd best 2nd of second round"

What riders saw: What horses saw:

So that would be 2 hours after the start... You won't get to see Patricia for sure, perhaps also not Sam and Cathal. But I'm sure you will see Sarah and Padraig. I guess there will likely be some breaks though (arena maintenance etc), in this big field of 70 starters... There is also quite often a longer break before the final 25 starters in these kind of competitions, so Sam could be safe too.

Freskgard and Scott are out, everyone else will start tomorrow in reverse order. Competition will start at 10am local time.

Very nerve-racking horse inspection for the Irish team... But they made it.

What an amazing photo. More XC gallery here.

Hopefully Belize will be a contender for a tripartite place for Tokyo.