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Donna Vekić wins the 3 hours long semifinal against Safarova.

Bettina Hoy is leading both of the competitions in Luhmuhlen. Amazing Leading the German CIC3* Championships with Seigneur Medicott with 26.3 penalties after XC. Leading the CCI4* with Designer with 36.0 penalties after XC.

Some cool news from Czech Republic today. Michael Bugan & For President got the first out of two required 65% qualifying scores for European Dressage Championships this summer... Here's hoping he makes it, would be a historic achievement for Slovakia. Meanwhile, Aniko Losonczy & Mystery managed to get their second 65% score. She becomes the third qualified Hungarian meaning that they will field a team for the first time in decades.

Sinatra Frank Baby, son of Sinatra himself is competing here!

Marilyn Little and Scandalous are in the lead after the first day of dressage in Luhmuhlen. Few riders might challenge her tomorrow, Hoy primarily. Leaderbord here. Oh, and I forgot to mention it last week. Yoshiaki Oiwa & Calle have won quite a strong 3* eventing competition in Braham last weekend... This up and coming partnership seems to be very much on a roll. Don't act all surprised if Japan snatches a medal in eventing in Tokyo.

Who knows, if everyone drops out at round one they might just use those very "important" FIBA rankings.

And where World records have no limits.

Well, when I search through their video features or whatnot I can only find some useless series.

Where did you find this?

[hide] Preliminary Round June 16th - June 19th, 2017 16 Nations, 4 Groups, 1st Nation, from each Group will qualify for Quarterfinals 2nd and 3rd Nations from each Group will qualify for Play-off Round Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 16th 2017, h. 18:00, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Ukraine 13 Czech Republic June 16th 2017, h. 20:30, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Hungary 15 Spain June 17th 2017, h. 15:00, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Spain 15 Ukraine June 17th 2017, h. 18:00, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Czech Republic 11 Hungary June 19th 2017, h. 12:30, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Hungary 6 Ukraine June 19th 2017, h. 18:00, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Czech Republic 9 Spain Group B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 16th 2017, h. 12:30, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Belarus 12 Italy June 16th 2017, h. 15:00, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Turkey 10 Slovakia June 17th 2017, h. 12:30, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Slovakia 10 Belarus June 17th 2017, h. 20:30, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Italy 12 Turkey June 19th 2017, h. 15:00, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Belarus 4 Turkey June 19th 2017, h. 20:30, Zimní stadion Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové Slovakia 3 Italy Group C Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 16th 2017, h. 18:00, Kralovka Arena, Prague Serbia 14 Greece June 16th 2017, h. 20:30, Kralovka Arena, Prague Slovenia 17 France June 17th 2017, h. 18:00, Kralovka Arena, Prague Greece 5 Slovenia June 17th 2017, h. 20:30, Kralovka Arena, Prague France 7 Serbia June 19th 2017, h. 15:00, Kralovka Arena, Prague Serbia 16 Slovenia June 19th 2017, h. 20:30, Kralovka Arena, Prague France 16 Greece Group D Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 19th 2017, h. 12:30, Kralovka Arena, Prague Belgium 10 Montenegro June 19th 2017, h. 15:00, Kralovka Arena, Prague Latvia 13 Russia June 19th 2017, h. 12:30, Kralovka Arena, Prague Montenegro 8 Latvia June 19th 2017, h. 15:00, Kralovka Arena, Prague Russia 20 Belgium June 19th 2017, h. 12:30, Kralovka Arena, Prague Latvia 7 Belgium June 19th 2017, h. 18:00, Kralovka Arena, Prague Montenegro 14 Russia [/hide]

[hide] Preliminary Round June 17th - June 25th, 2017 8 Nations, 2 Groups, 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for Semifinals Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 17th 2017, h. 18:00, Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg Russia 2 0 New Zealand June 18th 2017, h. 18:00, Kazan Arena, Kazan Portugal 1 0 Mexico June 21st 2017, h. 18:00, Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow Russia 0 2 Portugal June 21st 2017, h. 21:00, Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Mexico 1 0 New Zealand June 24th 2017, h. 18:00, Kazan Arena, Kazan Mexico 1 0 Russia June 24th 2017, h. 18:00, Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg New Zealand 1 4 Portugal Group B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 18th 2017, h. 21:00, Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow Cameroon 1 2 Chile June 19th 2017, h. 18:00, Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Australia 0 2 Germany June 22nd 2017, h. 18:00, Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg Cameroon 1 2 Australia June 22nd 2017, h. 21:00, Kazan Arena, Kazan Germany 1 0 Chile June 25th 2017, h. 18:00, Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi Germany 3 0 Cameroon June 25th 2017, h. 18:00, Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow Chile 1 0 Australia [/hide]

There will be more new rules in eventing. Riders who get eliminated at one of the stages will be allowed to continue in the team competition only, if their horses pass the vet inspection. Such eliminations would incur additional penalties though. 100 for elimination in dressage/jumping, 150 for XC. There will also be an "active" reserve option. Reserves will be allowed to enter at any stage during the competition. Additional penalties for putting a reserve forward are yet to be decided. Plus, the technical level of XC will be 3* instead of 4*, but still with the same length and same amount of jumping efforts.

Why not open thread for Europeans in fencing? Seems to be enough interest.

The third eventing 4*, Luhmuhlen Horse Trials will be held this week. Entries can be found here Rather a big entry field for Luhmuhlen, but only 6 riders for the home German team. And this is technically the strongest eventing competition in Germany... Participating nations... Australia (3) Belgium (1) Denmark (1) France (4) Germany (6) Great Britain (18) Ireland (4) Italy (1) Netherlands (3) New Zealand (4) South Africa (1) Sweden (1) United States (5) Zimbabwe (1) Go, go Cami Kruger.

Better this than nothing. Although, trailer is the only reference for the list of the events. Maybe there are more to come.

They have tornado/hurricans.

Our most successful paralympian of all time, Milka Milinković, has passed away. She took part at 10 Paralympics, Rio 2016 being the last time...

Rai Benjamin improves his PB to 48.33

Deciding if the thread is important enough could also be made some time after it gets opened. If there are not enough replays eventually, it could be merged with the general discussion thread.

Wow, confidence does miracles.

Not quite 33-31, but it came close to that at TT Worlds last week.

Haase survives.

Wawrinka thinks tennis ball is an apple.

New user in Tour de Suisse thread. @heywoodu did some magic.

That's it, Haase should have officially played in the final. Wawrinka is not getting more than 8 games.