Have a problem with a rider & horse who didn’t go XC riding SJ for a score. Not a level field.
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I mean they add a pretty steep penalty to it. I think its just to allow a team to at least complete even though it’ll knock them way out of the standing. Doesn’t really bother me.
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What is that helmet Nicolas Touzaint has on? That’s an interesting chin strap style.
Here I was about to compliment Alex Hua Tian for winning the Maclay of the third day- he has such a lovely sympathetic style of riding and the horse looked dynamite- and then there were dragons under the last fence… what a shame.
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Great Britain wins Eventing team gold medal.
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He rode so well this whole Olympics. Good horse, but that spook got to him at the last fence - drat!
Look forward to seeing Alex on more quality horses.
China and Japan will someday get to the podium, I think, as Sweden did in London.
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GB has all three riders in the top 5
not inconceivable for them to sweep the individual medals
dominating the field
Colleen, sole Cdn, is just outside of the top 25 to move on
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Andrew Hoy and Vassily De Lassos were amazing all Olympics. Christopher Six put France on the podium. Some amazing rides this Olympics!
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Does anyone know why Ludwig Sennistall pulled out? And what was the TE that caught out the second Swedish rider and the Dutch one as well? Was it the water jump that went around to a slightly easier jump out of the water or was it elsewhere?
There were three TEs where apparently the riders mixed and matched long and short routes when they shouldn’t have but weren’t pulled up until after the competition.
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But Brazil only had two riders in the team final? The horse who pulled up near the end of course yesterday did not present for the jog so the alternate was subbed in, but then Glenfly was withdrawn.
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Kazuma Tomoto is such an elegant rider. The Japanese riders have improved so much from years past, in Eventing and Show Jumping as well…
Well done home team!
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Well it was nice to see the US in front of Germany on the leaderboard for a bit, but I had a feeling it wouldn’t last. I personally am happy we completed a team with all three of our riders going on the individual finals. I think we did about the best we could do with what we had. We can talk about the what-ifs wrt to Tamie who might have given us a truly competitive dressage score - I tend to think that might have helped gain a place or two (assuming equivalent performance in the other phases) but I don’t think it would have gotten us on the team podium.
Super impressed with the performances of both Austrailia and France.
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Agreed. That rail was such a shame.
I hope that Yoshi and his horse are both all right, and that the alternate jumped not because he was required, but to give him an opportunity to contribute since the team was out of contention.
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Link to results of the team SJ & Individual Qualifier. The first 25 (“Q”) are basically the order of go for Individual SJ … maybe, I think. I’m guessing they won’t impose team order on them again?
https://tokyo2020.live.fei.org/results/EventingJumpingQualifier
EN has an interesting article of notes about these Olympics - details on what worked, and what didn’t.
In particular they called out the lack of good XC scores available to the public. The score shown real time to the public didn’t separate jumping vs time penalties. Just one total penalty score for each rider’s XC. And there isn’t a readable fence-by-fence analysis sheet of penalties at each fence, by rider. All that had to be recorded by spectators by hand if they wanted it (I do).
Scroll down to online scoring … and below that, there is criticism for overly complicated alternate routes that caused 4 TE’s.
I wonder who does keep the scores for the Olympics. Is it FEI folks, or some Olympic people who maybe don’t know the sport?
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And while I didn’t mind having XC E’s and R’s (without a horse fall) come back for show jumping, I have a real problem with horses that didn’t run XC at all in the show jumping and recording a score. That is not right, to me. Fresh horses with no XC the day before is some kind of horse show, not eventing. Just an opinion.
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[quote=“OverandOnward, post:761, topic:761862”]
As you know, being capable of walking the course and learning the direct routes and the alternative routes, is expected from riders in international competition.
“It’s too hard to memorize” cannot be an excuse at the Olympic level. Most Olympic riders are, and must be, capable of making a plan, and then a plan B.
Otherwise they need to dial it back a bit and work on their course study before competing at the International level… 
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Here we go with the individual medal for Eventing!
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Read the article’s comments – that’s the opinion you would be interested in. I don’t have one, I wasn’t there. 
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how far away is the equestrian facility from the main Olympic site?
It is raining heavily in the Athletics stadium right now
