Thanks for sharing! I was wondering how they have so many good camera angles!
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That final fence is quite the bogey. It seems like any of the rails are falling with the barest tap.
Let’s go, Ros!
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I wonder about the jump cups. I think Jon said something about 25 cm, which sounds to me like nearly flat. I wonder if they are flatter for pure show jumping.
It’s the only fence with a different colored top rail, which is white and matches the fence railing just a few strides after it. Plus they’re coming off the double and it doesn’t look like a lot of them are balancing enough. Happy to be done I’m sure.
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I think the cups are even flatter when it’s a plank as the top rail. Don’t recall seeing that on a high profile eventing course before, seems like it’s usually a related fence of some sort but not a plank.
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You’re right I just zoomed into my photo and the cups are flipped. I didn’t realize it was a plank until you said that. Tough. 
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they just showed a slo-mo closeup of the FLAT cup on that last jump. wow, it looks like you could breathe on it, and it would come down.
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Bonjour (even if it is the middle of the night). The course is pretty, but not, I think, as pretty as Tokyo or Rio. Sorry Paris.
IIRC correctly, all the crazy substitution rules are about allowing more teams to finish on a number and thus “finish” even if real eventing fans know they didn’t really finish.
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in this case, Japan is contention for bronze, even with the 20 substitution penalty.
i think the penalty should be higher. a XC pin is 11, a missed flag 15, subbing in a new horse should be more than 20
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if Julia as in 14th place why is she jumping now. Everything seems to be turned on it’s head for these new rules.
It sounds like they’re keeping the team rotations for the team final rather than reverse order.
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B/c this is the team final, Germany is next to last in team standings, we are in the second round of team riders, and Julia is the second ranked rider on the German team.
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and I agree about this course. It is nice, but not spectacular. I am thinking of the lovely jumps at Kentucky. And with the history of France, they have so much to work with. And no nod to LA?
teams in reverse order of team standing.
with 3rd place horse from each team going, then 2nd place horse from each team.
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Damn that last rail. El Mundo looks like he’s ready to go XC again 
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I see that now. It does make sense, seeing as how this is for the team. (i am still half asleep.) I don’t drink coffee so mornings are a b*tch.
Even at Versailles, I suppose there’s such a thing as overdecorating. With the incredible backdrop I don’t mind that the jumps are a little circumspect.
Tokyo’s were absolutely stunning.
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I would say the Paris jumps are more artsy and less architectural. I hope we will see some of the jumps that are set but not being used in this round in the individual final.
Well done Liz!
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Way to go Liz!
