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It's not too bad, but nothing ear-catching either.

And now I'll hear the Croatian entry for the very first time.

I guess her Italian wasn't that good then.

Oh come on, what's wrong with Europe...

And when he was Kenyan?

Jumping - Team Host (1) - WEG (6) - Europe A/B (3) - Europe C (2) - Americas D/E (3) - Africa/Middle East (2) - Australasia (2) - Nations Cup (1) - Jumping - Individual Group A - Group B - Group C - Groups D/E - Group F - Group G - Additional -

Eventing - Team Host (1) - WEG (6) - Europe A/B (2) - Europe C (1) - Americas D/E (2) - Africa/Middle East/Australasia (2) - Nations Cup (1) - Eventing - Individual Group A - Group B - Group C - Group D - reallocation (2x) Group E - Group F - Group G - Additional (6) + Reallocation (2) - (this one is pretty random )

Now that qualification systems are published, here are my first predictions for qualifications. It will be interesting to see how low my success rate will be. Dressage - Team Host (1) - WEG (6) - Europe A/B (3) - Europe C (1) - Americas D/E (2) - Africa/Middle East (1) - Australasia (1) - Dressage - Individual Group A - Group B - Group C - Group D - + reallocation Group E - Group F - Group G - Additional + Reallocation - South Africa using only 1-2 individual quotas instead of a team could screw Morocco and Palestine royally...

12 hours after saying: "I can win ugly, and whatever way it takes." http://eventingnation.com/oliver-townend-responds-to-public-outrage-over-whip-use-at-badminton/

Skeleton = random retirements + random comebacks. She'll be back.

For hockey I pretty much always put some "stereotypical" predictions. Though I'm usually higher than this.

Andrew Nicholson's Nereo was retired today. One of the greats. List of achievements: 2012 Olympics - Team Bronze, Individual 4th 2010 World Equestrian Games - Team Bronze, Individual Bronze Badminton Horse Trials - 1st (2017), 3rd (2013) Burghley Horse Trials - 2nd (2011, 2013, 2016) Les Etoiles de Pau - 1st (2012) Completed thirteen 4-stars.

Well, I always get goal differences very wrong.

Jonelle Price !!! Thank you for saving otherwise awful show jumping stage.

Can't believe ground jury actually gave a yellow card to Oliver Townend for whipping his horses all over the Badminton course. But then again, yellow card means absolutely nothing and he will continue tomorrow on his overnight scores like nothing happened. How wonderfully convenient for them. Jonelle Price & Classic Moet (28.0) lead the way after posting the fastest round of the day. Oliver Townend & Ballaghmor Class are 2nd (28.0) Rosalind Canter & Allstar are 3rd (30.3) Michal Jung & Sam 4th (30.7) Oliver Townend & Cooley SRS 5th (33.1) Mark Todd & Kiltubrid Rhapsody 6th (33.4) Nobody made the optiumum time as Jonelle was one second outside. Nice rounds for Kieffer (who finally changed her pedestrian pace and million time penalties trends of 2017!), McCarthy, Toddy, Murphy, O'Hanlon, Diaz Fernandez. Okayish round for Griffiths, probably too slow. Also it was interesting to see Virginia Thompson coming out of nowhere (well, southern hemisphere), and posting a surprisingly good round, despite getting 11 penalties. Jonty Evans & Cooley Rorkes Drift once again encountered cross-country problems. I'm not sure anymore if they have long format in them, as still they haven't jumped clear outside of short format since Rio 2016. They literally still don't even have minimum requirements for WEG as of now.

Were they this creative?

Here we go, mere five minutes after his 12 minutes cross-country ride, Harry Meade is already "guest" commentator. I feel like he invites himself to be a guest commentator, as he has zero chemistry with others and just talks, talks, talks...

And it's for nothing as they fell in the final minute.

And once again watching Abbott & Euro Prince is impossible without saying wow and laughing all the time. They approach the fences twice as fast compared to everyone else.

Yeah, if my memory serves me, Samba is the one they stole from ...

What the hell, Luxembourg wins two Grand Prix competitions in one day (and with big scores). Now they just need a solid 3rd rider (not impossible), and they shall become one of the top 7/8 teams globally.

Ah, yes, they did. They removed the dressage coefficient for 2018, so this score would be 36.1 (multiplied by 1,5) in "old money". It's still a great score no matter what currency.

Oooh, Froome 37 seconds behind.

So, the very final rider out of 80 gets first 10s of the entire competition. How wonderfully inconsistent and... Convenient. I do hope these corrupted eventing judges get replaced by robots. Soon.