They are appealing the disqualification but that couldn’t happen until after this class ended so never know could see her tomorrow for the team class.
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Now they have updated the standings, and taken all the "R"s out.
That’s odd.
My understanding on the Canadian horse is that it grabbed itself and had a bit of bruising. I feel sorry for the rider but if they did it to Denis Lynch they pretty much HAD to eliminate her as well.
As to Sharbatly I don’t think he goes through… or does he? I’m hopelessly confused by the scoring!! :lol:
I was somewhat assuming that was the case just going on what the R stands for. But now that list has dissappeared :S so not sure about your other question.
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The top 45, including ties for 45th are moving on. Ties for 47th don’t make that cut.
ok, they’ve updated, this makes more sense. sharbatly does NOT go through.
http://www.london2012.com/equestrian/event/jumping-individual/index.html
If it’s the top eight and ties, the ties should see that the lower teams make the Team finals. Shouldn’t they?
Do we still have a chance at gold with 8 faults? Crossing fingers that they leave up the rails tomorrow. Come on Team USA!!! How hard do we think the course will be tomorrow?
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Do we still have a chance at gold with 8 faults? Crossing fingers that they leave up the rails tomorrow. Come on Team USA!!! Will the cross stay the same for tomorrow?[/QUOTE]
All four riders ride again tomorrow.
Only Ward and Fellers can advance to final individual round though. The girls are just riding for the team at this point.
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Regarding the KSA team, I believe the violation was for trace amounts bute, and not anything that would actually effect the competition. It was outside the rules and so he was suspensed and fined. I fail to see why having trace amounts of what is legitemently a drug used for the welfare of the horse deserves a 2 year penalty, when anabolic steroids (US eventer) and a long acting sedative (Germany dressage) did not receive such severe penalties either.
At the end of the day, I’ll wait until the drug tests come back before I convict and crucify someone for horrid maldoing.[/QUOTE]
And that´s where we differ. I´m on the zerotolerance-team WHOEVER do the abuse. I would even give my hero RGB a good virtual smack if he was found using drugs to enhance his horses.
No more drugtalk on this thread by me from now on…I´d rather rant about the Swedish Team!
How good was that of Lisen (and Matrix) to get back from yesterdays fall and hospitalvisit to do the round today with only one down! And she´s on cruches when off the horse!
Team Standings
1-- Saudi Arabia --1
=2 – Great Britain – 4
=2 – Netherlands --4
=2 – Sweden – 4
=2 – Switzerland – 4
6 – Canada – 5 (down to just 3 riders)
=7 – Brazil – 8 (down to just 3 riders)
=7 – United States --8
Eliminated
9 – Mexico – 10
=10 – Australia --12
=10 – Germany – 12
12 – France – 14
13 – Belgium – 16
14 – Ukraine – 21
15 – Chile – 22
Showing my age—so many countries I’ve never even heard of…
I don’t understand the team scoring. Saudi have no faults for one rider and 2 faults each for the other to riders. How does that make it one fault and in first place. Same with Canada: 5faults would be Ian and Eric. What happened to Jill’s faults? They already dropped Tiffany’s. Totally confused now!
Will Foster be EL from the Team competition as well as the individuals? When does the alternate become involved, finals only?
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I don’t understand the team scoring. Saudi have no faults for one rider and 2 faults each for the other to riders. How does that make it one fault and in first place. Same with Canada: 5faults would be Ian and Eric. What happened to Jill’s faults? They already dropped Tiffany’s. Totally confused now![/QUOTE]
Team standings are based on TODAY’S scores.
Saudi team had two clears and 1 time fault.
Canada had Millar - 0, Lamaze -1 and Henslewood - 4. That add up to 5 total faults.
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Out of all competition.
Alternate? The competition has already started, it’s not like soccer where you can bring a sub in off the bench. Everyone has already jumped two rounds of jumping, that wouldn’t exactly be fair to bring in a fresh horse would it?
Alternates are only in case someone pulls out right before the games.
Thank you for clearing that up for me.
Following along on CTV without commentary is hard. I have no idea how the Olympics works. I thought they might sub in for injuries, but you’re right a fresh horse would not be fair.
Since both were the front rail of an oxer, Reed probably did/didn’t do something that she usually does.
Reed is a huge talent, but is young. However, at the Olympics there are no excuses – so her age/experience should not give her a “bye”. If she is playing in the big boy sandbox, it is because she has shown she can play with the big boys.
I thought she lost a stirrup, too. Looked like she got jumped out of the tack. That probably was a reason she had one rail. But it isn’t an excuse. Everyone else managed to keep their feet in their stirrups.
A rail stays up or it falls down. A light touch is the same number of faults as obliterating a jump because of total pilot error.
People who should medal cannot have faults. No excuses. Period.
Makes me crazy to read that “XXX rode well, too bad about those rails”.
If XXX really rode well, there would have been no rails. All their horses are capable of having clear rounds. At this level, anything less than a clear round is pilot error.
Oh yes it does. There was no such thing as a test for hypersensitivity until people started using sharp objects under shin boots or applying caustic substances to their legs to make them jump higher.
They are testing for sensitivity because of that, not because they are woried that a horse might have a cut on his leg or have hit a rail hard. Those things are dealt with by looking at soundness in the jog.
They may have been testing for abuse but in this particualar case no abuse/malpractice is implied. The FEI has stated that.
