Eventing: Showjumping Thread

Germany in the medals with two counting scores including refusals! That must have been about a million to one before the competition.
 
Oh I'm really pleased for France. I was expecting them to be as scary cross country as they used to be but they were great yesterday. Lovely today too.
 
Well I doubt anyone would have given those as medallists in that order before the competition started. Well done France!
 
Honey08 said:
France have been stronger and stronger all year. They deserved it.

And for a relatively inexperienced team 5th is a fair placing.
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3 of those horses are young enough to still be there in 4 years. They should be awesome with that much more experience behind them....although things never work like that do they! Miner's Frolic would have been 17 this time round had he still been here - with 2 Olympics behind him and at peak age.
 
Honey08 said:
I'm so pleased they've all had a wonderful round today. Hopefully the people who were whinging about their poor performance (yes you Lucinda!) will be a little happier today.
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Tbf, even the Performance Manager has said Team GB weren't good enough yesterday, and I do think people need to realise that not winning a team medal will have a knock effect on funding for Tokyo.

Good to move back up the team standings and finish fifth. Four clears is a super result too.
 
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Considering how tough a day they had yesterday that shows true grit and professionalism to come out and finish like that. I hope Team GB are proud of themselves and their horses for putting yesterday behind them and finishing the event in style. I'm certainly proud of them.
 
frostyfingers said:
Considering how tough a day they had yesterday that shows true grit and professionalism to come out and finish like that. I hope Team GB are proud of themselves and their horses for putting yesterday behind them and finishing the event in style. I'm certainly proud of them.
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I agree with this. Well done Team GB.
 
Where is fox pit and pippa now individually are they in top 25 for second sj round, at work and haven't seen a full result? Thanks
 
Mike Tucker is so unprofessional YET again. How dare he lose track of scores and who is where in the individual list (yes he said it himself live on air), what a shambles! it took him an age to realise France had won, he should have known the possible outcomes as Christopher Burton was jumping and passed them on to his viewers to build the excitement before the bell rang for his round to start. Hasn't his phone got a calculator? Disgracefully poor quality output the BBC......aaargh pathetic!
 
Biska said:
Mike Tucker is so unprofessional YET again. How dare he lose track of scores and who is where in the individual list (yes he said it himself live on air), what a shambles! it took him an age to realise France had won, he should have known the possible outcomes as Christopher Burton was jumping and passed them on to his viewers to build the excitement before the bell rang for his round to start. Hasn't his phone got a calculator? Disgracefully poor quality output the BBC......aaargh pathetic!
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I can't bear him. I know he has his defenders and they'll probably be along to shout at me but Christ, he needs retiring.

Get one of the Equi Ratings lads on there for stats - the only way I knew what was going on with medal placings was because they're great on Twitter. This is why I was moaning about the lack of a proper leaderboard before. If the Olympic tv company aren't going to provide it, it's even more important that the commentator knows what's going on!
 
Lexi_ said:
It's only going to be three riders in total at Tokyo - everyone's going to have to be super reliable or we'll have loads of eliminated teams!
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That's interesting - weren't there 5 riders in the team at London? Or can't I count? For GB there was William FP, Tina C, Nicola W, Zara P, Mary K as far as I remember - which definitely adds up to 5. Are they trying to get rid of equestrian sports by stealth, gradually reducing the numbers in the teams until there aren't any???
 
TheOldTrout said:
That's interesting - weren't there 5 riders in the team at London? Or can't I count? For GB there was William FP, Tina C, Nicola W, Zara P, Mary K as far as I remember - which definitely adds up to 5. Are they trying to get rid of equestrian sports by stealth, gradually reducing the numbers in the teams until there aren't any???
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Seems to be heading that way. I don't like it as a move - might be ok in the other two sports but it's going to mean some pressure situations on cross country if you've got to get round for the sake of the team.
 
TheOldTrout said:
That's interesting - weren't there 5 riders in the team at London? Or can't I count? For GB there was William FP, Tina C, Nicola W, Zara P, Mary K as far as I remember - which definitely adds up to 5. Are they trying to get rid of equestrian sports by stealth, gradually reducing the numbers in the teams until there aren't any???
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Rio was down to four riders as the Olympics wanted to bring all three sports in line, so eventing lost ten places and dressage gained ten and now has a team of four.

They're threatening/considering a team of 3 in Tokyo but it's not decided yet especially because of the pressure placed on horses xc
 
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