Pentathalon coverage?

[msrobin]

[QUOTE=spotted mustang;3473288]
I wonder: are these people as bad at their other disciplines as they are at riding? I mean, are there discussions on fencing or shooting boards about how they all poke each other in the eyes or shoot themselves in the foot?[/QUOTE]

THAT MADE ME SPIT MY DRINK OUT ALL OVER MY KEYBOARD! LOL LOL THAT WAS TOO FUNNY.

I haven’t watched them in anything other than the last part of the running. Some appear to be in shape for that while most of them barely made it around. The fencing and shooting is just boring to me so I never watched it. Makes me wonder now though.

[Foxtrot_s]

Spotted Mustang and Ms Robin - what an unsporting pair you are.
Can you run, fence, swim, shoot and ride, too? Pretty narrow approach to sport in my book. Add a few smileys and it makes it humour?

[FEIwannabe]

[QUOTE=spotted mustang;3473288]
I wonder: are these people as bad at their other disciplines as they are at riding? I mean, are there discussions on fencing or shooting boards about how they all poke each other in the eyes or shoot themselves in the foot?[/QUOTE]
It doesn’t matter how bad someone is at running, fencing, shooting (an air pistol at a target), or at swimming. At worst they’ll sprain an ankle, loose their bout, miss their target or drown.
They won’t make another life suffer.

[bird4416]

I’m not trying to defend the riding, but all 5 of the events are done in one day. They have numerous fencing rounds plus the shooting and swimming before they ride. By the time they get to the horses, they are probably pretty tired. I think they should swap the equestrian phase with a biking phase. A nice mountain biking course should fit in quite nicely and they can abuse the bike all they want and no one will care.

[spotted_mustang]

[QUOTE=Foxtrot’s;3473422]
Spotted Mustang and Ms Robin - what an unsporting pair you are.
Can you run, fence, swim, shoot and ride, too? Pretty narrow approach to sport in my book. Add a few smileys and it makes it humour?[/QUOTE]

hell, no, I can’t. But I’m also not showing up at the olympics.

[Fairview_Horse_Cente]

It is going to take more than a casual effort to learn be able to jump 4’ on a strange horse. This should not be a competition about how stupid the person is. A smart person would not only say no, but H*LL NO!

The riding part of the Pentathalon is not only not fair to the horses, but the riders as well.

What other Olympic sport can someone from another country ruin your “equipment” and you still have to use it to compete. I can’t see a gymnast having to compete on a broken balance beam, but the Pentathalon riders are expected to compete on horses that are now “quitters”, or lame, expecting to get jerked in the mouth, and slammed in the back over a jump. Even if they were GOOD riders, the first to go would be schooling the horse over the jumps for the remaining riders.

That is just NOT a valid competition. It’s a joke.

[petitefilly]

Wow, now I’ve seen the most useless expenditure of time in the world of sport. Seriously, do these people practice before they ride the event? They all look like local schooling show riders. It is out of the horse’s abilities too. Those horses are trying their hearts out, and getting no respect from the riders. It is sad. If the horse had any problems he was on his own. Whew, not going back to watch any more of that! Complete with racing horn before entering!

Totally uninformed audience watching anything put in front of them. <Arghhhh>

[msrobin]

[QUOTE=Foxtrot’s;3473422]
Spotted Mustang and Ms Robin - what an unsporting pair you are.
Can you run, fence, swim, shoot and ride, too? Pretty narrow approach to sport in my book. Add a few smileys and it makes it humour?[/QUOTE]

As a matter of fact I can. The only thing I haven’t tried is fencing. However as with any sport if I choose it to be an event I want to compete at then I would get the best training possible for that event. I would never go into the olympics not knowing the discipline I am there for. Which is what these people have done. If you think for a second that the riding was fine then you do not know what your looking at.