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Here we go!

I'm REALLY bad in this beach soccer thing. Who would have thought that Tahiti could reach the semifinals?

Cross-country starts today at 11:30 British time (12:30 CET). Looks like the optimum time will be 11:46. And here's a little gem from Badminton 1995. Nicholson himself will be the last rider to tackle the XC stage today.

Possibly. But it's quite small on a laptop.

Can the font on the graphics be any smaller?

So what time did Wambui have? (too lazy to check, but according to comments here it was quite good)

Jonty Evans - Now that's how you celebrate breaking 40 penalties for the first time. Meanwhile, Burton's score of 32.9 is the best dressage score at Badminton since 2002. So, that's the best score since eventing's complete make-over in 2004.

Andrew Nicholson ends the dressage portion with 38.3, goes into 6th place. We have 7 different nations in top 7 And the best for the host nation is in... 18th place.

Chris Burton 32.9 Now that was an excellent round.

38.0 for Lauren Kieffer & Veronica

[hide] Preliminary Round May 5th - May 16th, 2017 16 Nations, 2 Groups, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th from each Group qualify to Quarterfinals. Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 5th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Sweden Russia May 5th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne United States 1 Germany May 6th 2017, h. 12:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Latvia 2 Denmark May 6th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Slovakia 2 Italy May 6th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Germany 2 Sweden May 7th 2017, h. 12:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Italy 3 Russia May 7th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne United States 2 Denmark May 7th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Latvia 1 Slovakia May 8th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Germany 1 Russia May 8th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne United States 1 Sweden May 9th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Italy 1 Latvia May 9th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Slovakia 1 Denmark May 10th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne United States 4 Italy May 10th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Slovakia 1 Germany May 11th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Russia 2 Denmark May 11th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Sweden 3 Latvia May 12th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Sweden 4 Italy May 12th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Denmark 2 Germany May 13th 2017, h. 12:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Latvia 4 United States May 13th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Russia 3 Slovakia May 13th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Italy 3 Germany May 14th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Slovakia 2 United States May 14th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Denmark 2 Sweden May 15th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Denmark 2 Italy May 15th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Russia 4 Latvia May 16th 2017, h. 12:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Sweden 2 Slovakia May 16th 2017, h. 16:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Russia 1 United States May 16th 2017, h. 20:15, Lanxess Arena, Cologne Germany 3 Latvia Group B Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 5th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Finland Belarus May 5th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Czech Republic 2 Canada May 6th 2017, h. 12:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Switzerland 2 Slovenia May 6th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Belarus 3 Czech Republic May 6th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Norway 1 France May 7th 2017, h. 12:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Slovenia 3 Canada May 7th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Finland 3 France May 7th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Norway 2 Switzerland May 8th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Belarus 4 Canada May 8th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Finland 1 Czech Republic May 9th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Slovenia 1 Norway May 9th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Switzerland 2 France May 10th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Switzerland 3 Belarus May 10th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Finland 3 Slovenia May 11th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Czech Republic 2 Norway May 11th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Canada 4 France May 12th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Czech Republic 3 Slovenia May 12th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris France 2 Belarus May 13th 2017, h. 12:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Norway 3 Finland May 13th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Slovenia 1 Belarus May 13th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Canada 3 Switzerland May 14th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris France 2 Czech Republic May 14th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Switzerland 3 Finland May 15th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Canada 4 Norway May 15th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris France 1 Slovenia May 16th 2017, h. 12:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Belarus 1 Norway May 16th 2017, h. 16:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Czech Republic 1 Switzerland May 16th 2017, h. 20:15, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Canada 2 Finland [/hide]

[hide] Knockout Round May 4th - May 7th, 2017 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Semifinals Eastern Time Zone (GMT -4) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 6th 2017, h. 15:00, Nassau Stadium, Nassau Iran 1 Tahiti May 6th 2017, h. 16:30, Nassau Stadium, Nassau Italy 2 Brazil [/hide]

Ouch. That was a bad round for poor Cathal Daniels. His mare just didn't want to play... He ends up on 84 penalties. It's a miracle that he avoided elimination after so many refusals.

His preliminary scored got corrected to 37.2. Enough to put him in front of Donckers and back in 2nd place.

Ingrid Klimke the new leader with 36.3 But Jonty's performance is still the main talk in the town. Commentators were so impressed.

Jonty Evans goes second with 37.5 That's crazy good stuff.

Karin Donckers is the new leader. That's just awesome. One more session of dressage to go. Here is a video about yesterday's comedian commentary.

First day of the dressage has been completed. Vallette - 38.70 Hoy - 39.20 Jung - 40.00 Defending champions Michael Jung & Sam very much in touch, but with a considerably lower mark than last year (it was score of 34 a year ago). Meanwhile, live streaming and replay services have been switched to youtube due to some technical difficulties.

Haha, looks like they cut the commentary from audience's headsets because they were causing too much laughter. Not surprising, considering that they have a comedian Rory Bremner in the commentary booth. Still, it can be listened on badminton radio. https://www.badminton-horse.co.uk/live-badminton-radio/

Thibault Vallette takes the lead! Meanwhile, one of the commentators is excellently imitating Donald Trump's voice.

Bettina Hoy first to into 30s

Ah, these commentators are hilarious Two of them (man and woman) are having a lot of disagreements. The third one says: "You two don't like each other, do you?"

It's starting. Here are the links for LIVE STREAMING and LIVE RESULTS.

Badminton starts tomorrow. Final entries (and start list) available here. Here are some throwback videos about Badminton's early days.

[hide] Knockout Round May 4th - May 7th, 2017 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Quarterfinals Eastern Time Zone (GMT -4) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 4th 2017, h. 15:30, Nassau Stadium, Nassau Paraguay 2 Tahiti May 4th 2017, h. 17:00, Nassau Stadium, Nassau Brazil 3 Portugal May 4th 2017, h. 18:30, Nassau Stadium, Nassau Switzerland 1 Iran May 4th 2017, h. 20:00, Nassau Stadium, Nassau Italy 3 Senegal [/hide]