so glad I didn’t sign up for that!
Could someone tell me what brand helmet Touzaint rode in?
Looked like GPA logo but interesting hinged chin strap.
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Can confirm. Super annoying.
I think their scores would have been quite a bit better. Based on scores you would think that basically Boyd and Carolyn and ridden about the same but Carolyn’s ride was much better. It would be interest to do an anlysis of scores versus start time.
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Okay am I crazy or was the judging between part 1 and part 2 really different? I didn’t want to get up early so am watching the first portion now and some of these tests are significantly better than ones who scored higher than them but went later. Idk….
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Very different. Pretty disappointing, tbh. It’s almost like they are scoring up or down vs the prior competitor rather than against a standard.
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Agreed. This happens when dressage is held over 2 days too, but judging that many tests in 1 day is pretty unusual.
Thank you. I was struggling to find an Olympic version of live scores.
Fairly sure, singled-handed, you prevented my having a stroke this morning.
Was getting super annoyed until I decided to embrace the chaos and mute my computer, so I can scroll TikTok for a few minutes. 
Another Olympic specific question: why did Cooley Nutcracker lose his prefix but HSH Blake got to keep his for the Olympics?
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I don’t know, but Quidam did too. It has long been that way for Olympics and World championships.
I remember that they take them off for the Olympics, just seems strange that Blake’s was not removed.
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On the scoring versus time of go. The before lunch group averaged a 4 point higher score than the after lunch group. There were 8 groups segmented by the breaks. The best scores were in groups 5 and 6 which were the ones that immediately followed lunch. The lowest average scores were in groups 7 and 8. The last two groups of the day.
So definitely better being after lunch and the later in the day the better. Every afternoon group had a better average score than the best morning group.
I guess the judges didn’t get their caffeine this morning.
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I noticed the ones with just initials got to keep theirs. HSH Blake, JL Dublin, Freedom GS
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I would also be quite more forgiving after lunch 
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Lordship’s Graffalo got to keep his as well.
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I noticed that too. I guess it gets too difficult to enforce the letters?
I would agree. I was half asleep watching Caroline, but now having watched through I thought her test was significantly better than Boyd’s in comparison to score the same. The horse had maybe two sub par changes but correct ones and the rest was quite quality!
The rule is that sponsor and owner names are removed and breeder names can stay but in the past there’s been a lot of confusion on the FEI’s part about which are which.
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But HSH, for example, is a known owner prefix. I imagine it’s just too confusing and difficult to try to go after all letters, though.
