let the (beginning of the) games begin! 
http://news.sky.com/story/976402/paralympic-cauldron-lit-ahead-of-torch-relay
(that is a pretty freakin’ cool exoskeleton she’s wearing there. wiki says she’s a former eventer.)
whoops. oh well, i suspect there will be a thread merge at some point. (or maybe even a new forum. 
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Is Claire Lomas the eventer who was injured so badly at either Badminton or Burghley?
Just googled Claire Lomas. Although she rode Burghley, she was injured at the Osberton Horse Trials, not either one of the two British 4*s.
2007 was a terrible year for eventing.
