Eventing: Showjumping Thread

ElleSkywalker said:
Shame for Jonelle. Still a we aren't going to win my allegence has moved to Oz as my granny was Australian :)
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I'm very solidly English and Scottish so I have no useful allegiances and am just cheering for people at random.

Astier Nicolas smiled at me once when walking a course so I'll cheer for him :p
 
Lexi_ said:
I'm very solidly English and Scottish so I have no useful allegiances and am just cheering for people at random.

Astier Nicolas smiled at me once when walking a course so I'll cheer for him :p
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Mark Todd has repeatedly glared at me in am angry manner on countless occasions which makes things a little awkward :tongue3:
 
So while there's a break, which horse would you want to take home? Got to be Ranco for me. Really looked after his rider yesterday and looked lovely again today.
 
ElleSkywalker said:
Mark Todd has repeatedly glared at me in am angry manner on countless occasions which makes things a little awkward :tongue3:
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Hahaha!

annagain said:
So while there's a break, which horse would you want to take home? Got to be Ranco for me. Really looked after his rider yesterday and looked lovely again today.
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Ranco is such a dude. Probably him or the Duke of Cavan, although Billy the Biz is up there too.
 
I remember helping a friend out in a sj warmup and a steward asked me to go get Oli T for her. I was petrified.
 
Not sure how long this break is for, shouldn't be long surely?

Individual medal rounds for the top 25 start at 6, I do know that.
 
Ranco or Just Chocolate for me, shame the latter is obviously not too great today.

Can someone explain what is happening as the BBC don't seem to know their bum from their elbow as the ticker tape just read that the team show jumping has just been completed and the individual show jumping will commence at 6pm tonight?! I step out of the room for a few minutes and now have no idea what's going on! Is it just Gemma and Kitty which have jumped for the UK?
 
Dunlin said:
Ranco or Just Chocolate for me, shame the latter is obviously not too great today.

Can someone explain what is happening as the BBC don't seem to know their bum from their elbow as the ticker tape just read that the team show jumping has just been completed and the individual show jumping will commence at 6pm tonight?! I step out of the room for a few minutes and now have no idea what's going on! Is it just Gemma and Kitty which have jumped for the UK?
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There's a break. Half the riders have been, another 23 to go. Hazel just said on TV that they'll be back with the Eventing at 2.30 our time....I assume she meant 3.30
 
They've paused to harrow the arena I guess so should start again soon - the individual rounds/top 25 jump again at 6pm our time.
 
Thanks Annagain, I shall also hang the washing out and maybe run the hoover around with this funky Salsa style music playing!
 
Yes they're a bit unorganised. They could have said how long the break is. Mike Tucker and Ian Stark are irritating me, sat out there on a nice jolly and yet they didn't even know the rules yesterday about retaking fences. If you're being paid to cover the Olympics you ought to at least know the basic rules!! Same could be said for the fence judges too.
 
Honey08 said:
Yes they're a bit unorganised. They could have said how long the break is. Mike Tucker and Ian Stark are irritating me, sat out there on a nice jolly and yet they didn't even know the rules yesterday about retaking fences. If you're being paid to cover the Olympics you ought to at least know the basic rules!! Same could be said for the fence judges too.
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They can only go on what their feed tells them as they don't see everything, only the pictures we see. Given the judges were confused, I don't think you can blame the commentators.

More frustrating (and not the equestrian I should say) are the commentators who can't learn how to pronounce competitors' names correctly. Geraint (Thomas in the cycling) is not pronounced Grant, Grinte or Grind! It's so disrespectful. If it's your job to say a name a lot, learn how to say it properly. It's not even like he's foreign, all they'd have to do is ask a Welsh person to teach them.
 
annagain said:
They can only go on what their feed tells them as they don't see everything, only the pictures we see. Given the judges were confused, I don't think you can blame the commentators.

More frustrating (and not the equestrian I should say) are the commentators who can't learn how to pronounce competitors' names correctly. Geraint (Thomas in the cycling) is not pronounced Grant, Grinte or Grind! It's so disrespectful. If it's your job to say a name a lot, learn how to say it properly. It's not even like he's foreign, all they'd have to do is ask a Welsh person to teach them.
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I thought yesterday a couple of times Ian Stark said something that implied he was a bit annoyed about the way the pictures were changed with little apparent reason.
Agree with you about the pronunciation.
 
Dunlin said:
Thanks Annagain, I shall also hang the washing out and maybe run the hoover around with this funky Salsa style music playing!
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Aren't you all energetic? I lay on the bed reading. Booking these two days off work were a brilliant idea!
 
I'm quite pleased I have August as my do serious job hunting/give my mind a refresh/watch the Olympics month
 
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