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Well, at least it was not the disaster that the previous rider from Ecuador had! YIKES![/QUOTE]
Uh-oh… Do you mean Ronald Zabala? I think he’s the only Ecuadorean, but he’s based here in the States & rides w Phillip Dutton. Saw him walking in the ceremonies last night.
No, they have three riders up there… Paget is NZ. Clayton and Lucinda both ride tomorrow… not that that changes that we’re not in the best situation.
And Zabala was only 1.3 behind Tiana… if his was a disaster, it couldn’t ahve been that big of one! Maybe you were watching the South African rider that was two before Tiana? I didn’t see the ride, but the score doesn’t look pretty.
I usually find the dressage phase of eventing about a notch and half above watching show hunters, but man I could Ingrid Klimke ride all day long. Beautiful.
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Tiana’s ride was steady, not brilliant. Good for her first time on the such a nerve-wracking stage![/QUOTE]
I would not characterize it as “steady”. It had two major errors and points thrown away in several places. The horse was not confirmed on the bit, the connection was inconsistent, the lateral work did not show enough stretch, the halt was crooked and not square and of course the resistant 2nd change, the flop on the extended canter and the CORNER before it was fixed – and cantering off the halt at entering. Those are the things I noticed.
(Edited to add: her trot work was EXEMPLARY I think and the gaits are spectacular, the best trot I saw today. After seeing the other tests without the annoying stopping and losing of the feed, I think she was robbed a bit. I think this was really a 48 or less test despite the mistakes. Hard to watch all tests today! I know everyone was having trouble with the feed.)
Loving Ingrid’s quarter marks! She looked lovely, and I am VERY excited I figured out how to watch it on the computer!
Ainsley688, can you tell me what you did? I’m so frustrated as I can’t seem to get on and have been trying since early this a.m. I do have silverlight on my computer.
Klimke’s ride was textbook. Just beautiful. But the horse wasn’t flamboyent enough in his gaits according to Stark.
I also really, really like the French rider, Guillon. Not flashy but correct.
Trying to get registered for live streaming…
Signed up for the freecast deal - not working…
Got to see about 15 seconds of Karen O’Connor’s dressage test during cycling. Gee, thanks, NBC…
If anyone can download a proxy successfully the BBC live stream is fantastic. Every single rider, and the best thing about the BBC: No commercials! I started a bit late so I’m just watching Nicola Wilson now…Boyd Martin had one of the best tests so far, but judges seem to be scoring quite harshly. Enjoying the commentary too.
Someone’s wearing a helmet…not sure who it is though!
I watched on and off, and my live stream worked well. I have Insight cable and internet…not always such a fan, but, given everyone else’s issues, I’m digging them right about now!
Did I just see Edward Gal sitting with the Dutch contingent?
I have Time Warner and it’s been awful trying to get it to stream.
Gold medal goes to
Equibrit for her sterling help with all of us who thought we had this thing down, and her tireless continuation of guiding us through. I have been frozen out for hours. Try differet options-IE works and then gets frozen. I can’t get firefox to even open, then before I even get to nbc it is buffering. AOL-:uhoh:
I downloaded expat for something before and couldn’t get it to work so I may try again. I went into the Adobe flash player and had/have what looks like hundreds of sites-I thought that stuff went away when you clean your cache. Can’t get the computer guy on the phone, so I may have to go to worst buy and get more ram. I do get messages telling me my CPU is near capasity just before it shuts down. I didn’t have this problem with Rolex but I think it is probably my computer.
SO Frustrating!
I have a special program called process lasso and a memory manager, and my clunky computer is pretty much limited only by my connection.
I think I just saw Anky with Tim Lips’s father.
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Did I just see Edward Gal sitting with the Dutch contingent?[/QUOTE]
Yep - shot of Edward and Hans-Peter, both in the stands watching.
Edward Gal is on the Dutch team.
I’m using Comodo Dragon for the browser. It’s supposedly Chrome without Google.
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has anyone worn a helmet in the dressage phase?[/QUOTE]
I did not see all the rides, but I believe I noticed that the Swedes are in helmets. Of what I saw it seems most everyone else is not wearing a helmet. So far.
I am trying not to be twisted and bitter about how the team came together in the end. We had the starting to point to put together something far better than we had last time, but in some ways we are repeating the mistakes of 2008. :no:
I think that for WEG 2014 Tiana & RM, and Clark M. and LG, could possibly be ready as solid team members. But neither pair was quite ready for this Olympics. But somehow one of them is taking a spot on the team for what I feel is fallacious reasoning. You can have a “wow surprise” spot IF you have a rock solid team medal score in the other 4 spots. The U.S. is not so fortunate on the rock-solid part.
Not against Tiana in any way, she seems to be a fine person and caring horsewoman. Just not the right time for this, imo.
Another good thing about the BBC is that the whole day is available for viewing on recorded video. Of course, it’s still streaming so you can’t let a chapter download and then view without buffering–or at least I don’t seem to be able to.
Yes, the rider I saw in a helmet was Swedish.
Just saw KOC"s ride…sucks about the end!
The Aussies are doing very well!!
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