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OP means Lee Pearson won GB's first dressage OLYMPIC gold medal.

A bit silly really as he won a PARALYMPIC GOLD MEDAL.

Not the same thing at all. I don't think they'd mind if he decided to competed in Grand Prix classes.
 
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I have just watched the BBC 6 pm news and they mentioned all the medals won by Team GB today, EXCEPT the Dressage ! Its obviously not pc to be an "elite" sport.
 
It's quite bad really, lots of mentions for Sir Chris but the team dressage seems to be getting left out. Not alot of mentions for the SJ yesterday either though. I don' understand it at all :(
 
I've been listening to Radio 2 and they have certainly been mentioning the equestrian medals all day.
Chris Evans was talking to the show jumpers this am and Simon Mayo chose 'equestrian' as his theme songs and finished the show with Champion the wonder horse in their honour!!
Didn't most of the daily papers have the show jumpers on their front covers?
 
Has been mentioned repeatedly on Radio 2 this afternoon (Simon Mayo even dedicated his show to Equestrian themed songs with the final song of his show being Champion the Wonder Horse :D) and on the Olympic news on the BBC 1 and 2 channels


An interview with the showjumpers also appeared on Gaby Logan's show on BBC 1 last night (very funny interview :D) and they were on Chris Evans breakfast show this morning on Radio 2 - a little worse for wear after what was clearly a helluva party last night! I think the dressage team will be on Chris' show tomorrow morning as well


I think we can stop bashing the brodcasters now :rolleyes: I for one have been impressed with the coverage and think the BBC have done a great job of giving fair air time to all sports (bear in mind the number of sports there are being contested) and recognising the achievements of our Olympians
 
jodie3 said:
I've been listening to Radio 2 and they have certainly been mentioning the equestrian medals all day.
Chris Evans was talking to the show jumpers this am and Simon Mayo chose 'equestrian' as his theme songs and finished the show with Champion the wonder horse in their honour!!
Didn't most of the daily papers have the show jumpers on their front covers?
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Snap Jodie3!!! Cross posted :)
 
there was nice coverage in some of the nationals today-even the Guardian had a good piece-on the sjing, plus they were on breakfast telly.

there are a lot of sports and even though we love it, it's still very niche. am sure that the equestrian teams success will open people's minds up a bit.
 
Well, I haven't seen or heard half the coverage people have mentioned here but the bits I have seen, pretty much all of them have covered the success of the dressage today and the jumping yesterday (I was there, it was fab so don't need to see the coverage anyway! :) )

I think the coverage of everything has be fantastic actually - compared to what other country's coverage has been - Asian countries very much focussing on table tennis and badminton in the main and Australia only showing coverage of the sports they are good at! My sister and her boyfriend have cone over from India and said the coverage there is terrible. The BBC/UK coverage has been excellent in my opinion.
 
I have just watched the BBC 6 pm news and they mentioned all the medals won by Team GB today, EXCEPT the Dressage ! Its obviously not pc to be an "elite" sport.




They did a massive bit on it on the bbc news channel, saying how amazing it was as we had never won a medal in olympic dressage let along gold. Then did an interview with someone in the know in dressage? sorry forgot the persons name but the newsreader was really interested and asking lots of questions and saying how good it was for the sport as a lot of (non-horsey) people don't know/understand it. If we now win medals in the individuals then they can't not mention equestrian sport more and lots more people will hopefully take an interest :D
 
Lee Pearson when asked;

What are you looking forward to most about the London Paralympic Games?

"It being over. I've got so much pressure on me to do well and there are so many good up-and-coming riders. I want to get the last New Year Honour, which I'm sure if I were able-bodied I would have had before now. I don't think there's any able-bodied person who's had to get 20-odd gold medals before they've been knighted. If I do retire, I
want to retire with everything that I deserve."

http://paralympics.channel4.com/the-athletes/athleteid=444/qa.html
 
Equibrit said:
Lee Pearson when asked;

What are you looking forward to most about the London Paralympic Games?

"It being over. I've got so much pressure on me to do well and there are so many good up-and-coming riders. I want to get the last New Year Honour, which I'm sure if I were able-bodied I would have had before now. I don't think there's any able-bodied person who's had to get 20-odd gold medals before they've been knighted. If I do retire, I
want to retire with everything that I deserve."

http://paralympics.channel4.com/the-athletes/athleteid=444/qa.html
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Seriously??!! Fantastic competitor and talent he may be but that attitude stinks! What a whiner! There are many who achieve in the face of adversity and don't necessarily get the recognition they deserve!!
 
An interview which took place at least 16 months ago. He describes Totilas as "a new dressage horse on the scene".

Not sure it is relevant.
 
Relevant to what :confused:



Perhaps his opinion/attitude has changed over the intervening months. A shame if not given the wonderful spirit of the games we've seen so far
 
BBC Scotland has just done their sports report from Blair Horse Trials. Olympic medals are definitely raising the profile of equestrian sports in the "normal" media.
 
Equibrit said:
Lee Pearson when asked;

What are you looking forward to most about the London Paralympic Games?

"It being over. I've got so much pressure on me to do well and there are so many good up-and-coming riders. I want to get the last New Year Honour, which I'm sure if I were able-bodied I would have had before now. I don't think there's any able-bodied person who's had to get 20-odd gold medals before they've been knighted. If I do retire, I
want to retire with everything that I deserve."

http://paralympics.channel4.com/the-athletes/athleteid=444/qa.html
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Nothing sounds worse than a top sportsman whineing
So I'll just addd him to my list if whineing sportsmen I dislike.
 
He's got a chip on his shoulder the size of a King Edward. Always has been and always will be a whinger. It's all " Look at Poor me " . Horrid little man with no manners .
 
Lee can be arrogant at time but nobody deserves the email he put on his facebook fan page the other day that he recieved this week Discusting !......................


."Dear Lee

I do not want to be disparaging, but to call yourself an "International athlete" as you did in C
ome Dine With Me, needs some questioning.

How many people with your disability are there in the UK? Two hundred perhaps?

How many of these two hundred actually indulge in equestrian activity? I would imagine about twenty.

So, to be chosen for the Great Britain team, is not being chosen out of the 70 million in the UK, but being chosen out of about twenty people.

So, to call yourself an international athlete, is a bit of a stretch!

And your nine gold medals, in the light of this examination of what your sport means, is somewhat diluted don't you think?

Regards

**** ****** "
 
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