They’re taking the element out where Nicola fell. That’s not a good sign, although a good response.
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Sorry which fence are they removing?
Yes and after a downhill and forward stride. I remember I was watching riders before doing my first Prelim and the first person I watched jumped the corner, 5 strides to the bounce and just came in hell bent for leather and flipped her horse over and had to be airlifted to the hospital.
I never half halted so hard in my life coming into that fence lol luckily my horse was an amazingly smart jumper but it shook me for a long time seeing that at 15! Back then you didn’t see falls unless you saw them in person or on VHS.
The C element of fence 26 has been removed from the course. The fence that Nicola fell at.
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The final element of the Mars baskets where Nicola fell.
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Thanks guys.
I just sat down to start watching, heard about Tom, watched Nicola fall, saw Oliver struggle through…. I have not had enough caffeine yet to catch up and learn the course!
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Interesting. That’s fence 27, right? It doesn’t look like anything crazy, unless it was damaged or in the fall
The horse really just didn’t get its front end up. It looked a good distance and hadn’t had anything THAT sketchy. I wonder if it was tired but I didn’t feel it was a fence issue.
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Good on Pippa.
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Sensible move by Pippa
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Good on Pippa. That horse was losing confidence & wasnt forward thinking. What a horsewoman!
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I just began watching. Was Nicola’s fall rotational? Did the horse land on her? Hoping she’s ok.
results show Oliver eliminated at the 4th fence.
I wonder what happened? was that the fence they slithered over?
Just saw that! It must have been that fence early on.
The fence by fence results are showing him as E at fence 4. Wow!
I’m not shocked. Honestly it looks like his horse hit low enough on the back end to constitute a horse fall
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He’ll be peeved.
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live scoring showing a fall for Lillian Heard.
badminton radio has not reported it - they just noticed the Ollie elimination and talking about that
Looked like a slow motion fall she attempted to save.
The live feed showed #20 Lillian Heard at a distance through the crowd just coming off over the horse’s shoulder, probably unseated after a fence.
