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Fast facts about the first Liege-Tokyo flight from Tuesday evening.

 

  • 18 hours 15 minutes – flight time Liege to Tokyo, with a touchdown in Dubai
  • Aircraft detail: Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777-F (flight numbers EK9388 LGG-DXB, EK9442 DXB-HND)
  • 19 flying stables on-board
  • Dimensions of the flying stables: 317cms long, 244cms wide, 233cms high
  • 14-17° Celsius – on-board temperature
  • 36 Dressage horses – teams from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Portugal and host nation Japan, and individual horses from Brazil, Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Morocco.
  • 22,700kgs +/- total weight of horses flying from Liege
  • 630kg is the average weight of a Dressage horse
  • 13,500kgs of horse equipment
  • 12,000 kgs of feed (not including in-flight meals & snacks)
  • 40 litres of water per horse

 

 

Total transport trivia.

 

  • 247 - total number of horses travelling to Tokyo for the Olympic Games
  • 78 – total number of horses travelling to Tokyo for the Paralympic Games
  • 630kg – average weight of a Dressage horse; 515kg – average weight of an Eventing horse; 610kg – average weight of a Jumping horse
  • 14 – total number of horse flights for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
  • 5 – total number of horse flights for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
  • 100,000kgs - total weight of the horse equipment (including saddles, bridles, boots, bandages, rugs, lungeing equipment, headcollars, grooming kits, shoes & studs, wheelbarrows & pitch forks)
  • 60,000kgs – total feed weight (feed/haylage) 185 – total number of truck journeys between Haneda airport and the equestrian park at Baji Koen

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10 minutes ago, dcro said:

12,000 kgs of feed (not including in-flight meals & snacks)

:d 

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Just now, dcro said:

First time that tailcoats in colors other than black/dark blue are allowed at the Olympics... And the Dutch have jumped at this opportunity to present this atrocity... :( @heywoodu

 

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"Yes, I like it. It fits nicely like this!"

 

I find it so.....'different' than I actually like it :d You know, sort of.

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1 hour ago, dcro said:

First time that tailcoats in colors other than black/dark blue are allowed at the Olympics... And the Dutch have jumped at this opportunity to present this atrocity... :( @heywoodu

 

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It's orange, what's not to like!:lol:

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A couple of withdrawals in jumping...

 

:NED NED

Harrie Smolders & Dolinn (out) -> Willem Greve & Zypria S (in)

New traveling reserves - Harrie Smolders & Bingo du Parc

 

:NZL NZL

Sharn Wordley & Verdini d'Houtfeld (out) -> Uma O'Neill & Clockwise of Greenhill Z (in)

New traveling reserves - Tom Tarver-Priebe & Popeye

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Luiz Francisco de Azevedo and Comic are out for :BRA jumping. They are replaced by Pedro Veniss

and Quabri de L’Isle.

 

This will be the last big competition for Quabri (17). Veniss had initially withdrawn from the selection contention, wanting to preserve his horse. 

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3 hours ago, intoronto said:

@dcro would be interested in seeing your medal predictions and contenders 

To be fair, all disciplines are pretty much at their least predictable this time around, but I'll give it a try... This concerns especially the no-discard teams.

 

 

In dressage, :GER Germany is in the driver's seat for team gold. The other two medals will be decided between :GBR:DEN:USA:NED and maybe :SWE. The last two spots for the team final should be decided in a battle between :ESP:AUS:AUT:CAN. As for the individual event, people already started giving Jessica von Bredow-Werndl the gold after she swept the German championships in June, but then she lost to Werth at the final selection event. Any of the three Germans have a chance, plus Dujardin (GBR), Dufour (DEN) and maybe Gal (NED) and Lyle (USA).

 

 

In eventing, one wouldn't bet against :GBR Great Britain for the team gold, but once again anything can happen with no discard scores. Other main candidates (in ranked order) include :AUS:GER:NZL:JPN:FRA... :IRL Ireland is bringing only one horse back from their 2018 WEG silver medal team. :SWE Sweden had a good Olympic cycle (two European podiums), but once again they have a meh team when it matters the most. :USA United States are always hyped, but their cross-country riding has been sub-par since like Beijing 2008 really. As for the individual event, Jung (GER) looks good for a treble, but his horse Chipmunk can have a rail down in show jumping. Other main contenders are all three Brits and Australians, Daniels (IRL), Auffarth (GER). the Prices (NZL), Romeike (SWE), Tomoto (JPN), Martin (USA), and Hua Tian (CHN).

 

 

As for jumping, it would be awesome if one of :SWE:BEL could snatch a team gold, and they both have a good chance. :USA is kind of meh (for their standards), :GER can win it for sure, :FRA:NED  have seen better days, :SUI has been looking for a valid third team member for years now (maybe they finally found it in Beat Mandli), :IRL can win gold on one day and finish 18th on another. :GBR:AUS:BRA:MEX have pulled upsets in this cycle and can surprise again. Individual jumping could end up in a big unpredictable jump-off, but let's mention Maher (GBR), Guerdat (SUI), Fuchs (SUI), Fredricson (SWE), Bruynseels (BEL), von Eckermann (SWE), Deusser (GER), Kukuk (GER), Farrington (USA), Ward (USA), Leprevost (FRA), O'Connor (IRL), Zanotelli (BRA), Diniz (POR), Nassar (EGY).

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