Outcome of the FEI dressage judging thing

[BasqueMom]

Mardi,

How true…and painful to watch IMO.

[Frank_B]

And the Equestrian judges thought they had dissention…:lol:

[SGray]

@poltroon;3464641

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Why not? Because I already knew what the result would be.

I don’t mean that in terms of crooked judges necessarily, but just in terms of how dressage is judged. There’s little suspense. Apparently even if the top horse gives his rider the finger, the outcome barely changes.

Compare that to watching the show jumping, where any of 20 riders could’ve been on top, or gymnastics, where even our very dominant top two girls could have made a critical mistake, or even for goodness’ sake the dreaded Beach Volleyball, where the very dominant and very reliable Misty May Trainor and Kerry Walsh still had me on the edge of my seat on multiple occasions, wondering if this match would be the end of their streak.

I enjoy watching dressage as a performance, but it’s not a sport. Not because the horse and rider aren’t athletes - they certainly are - but for the same reason that Cirque du Soleil can be beautiful and athletic and not a sport. Even if there are judges, if the outcome is never in doubt, you’re not going to get that Olympic suspense.

an excellent point Poltroon – a report I saw re softball being taken out of Olympics stated that one of the main reasons was dominance by one country (happens to be US in this case)

[LisaB]

Damned! Don’t give us any ideas!

@Frank B;3468558

And the Equestrian judges thought they had dissention…:lol:

I love watching dressage. Just so long as they don’t show me the scores because it’s unbelievably frustrating.
Gymnastics and diving changed their judging ways because of the subjectiveness and hence, losing a lot of publicity and players. Dressage is definitely heading this route.
I was always going to do dr after losing my cajones for eventing. I’m thinking twice about it now because I refuse to get into subjective sports.

[BahamaMama]

Abba : Money money money, it’s a rich men’s world