FEI sacks entire dressage committee!!
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lucretia
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they havent sacked them just called for their resignation which is not qiuite the same thing here http://www.fei.org/Media/News_Centre/New...tee-3Nov08.aspx though the end result will be! scandal in dressage who would have thought it and who knows what has been going on then
rotters13
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Wow! That's quite a big move isn't it?
brighteyes
Pooh-Bah
Phooey. It happened in our Pony Club. Someone higher up than the rest of 'em not getting their own way perhaps?
Rosiefan
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Did you read Princess Haya's letter? http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/competitionnews/388/271337.html
It sounds as though the committee may have lost the plot somewhere along the line.
Is the committee elected or simply selected? Maybe they can't be sacked so they just have to wait for them to resign. Interesting!
It sounds as though the committee may have lost the plot somewhere along the line.
Is the committee elected or simply selected? Maybe they can't be sacked so they just have to wait for them to resign. Interesting!
Alibear
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So there's finally some fall out from the strange meetings at the Olympics, I maybenaieve but it's made me smile this morning.
skewbaldpony
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Well done to Princess Haya - what a bunch of self serving ******** - and lets hope in the interests of dressage as a sport, and fair play in general, they manage to find some replacements who can see beyond a name, and aren't so keen to 'suck up'.
Like maybe penalising a horse which cannot or does not halt, for example.
It makes me mad when my young daughter says 'there's no point taking up dressage, it's not what you can do that counts, it's who you are.'
They should resign in shame.
Like maybe penalising a horse which cannot or does not halt, for example.
It makes me mad when my young daughter says 'there's no point taking up dressage, it's not what you can do that counts, it's who you are.'
They should resign in shame.
TableDancer
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I don't really know the ins and outs and I can't read Princess Haya's response as my computer deletes it as soon as it comes on screen - some dark FEI/Emirates Security Services virus perhaps to prevent us reading her private correspendence
However, I do think she needs to be careful not to appear to be running the FEI as a private fiefdom. It may well be that the dressage committee deserved to be ousted but viewed by an outsider (me) it doesn't look like a very democratic process... On the eventing side, which I know a little more about, she certainly seems to be viewed as a meddler who is inclined to abuse her position of power.
However, I do think she needs to be careful not to appear to be running the FEI as a private fiefdom. It may well be that the dressage committee deserved to be ousted but viewed by an outsider (me) it doesn't look like a very democratic process... On the eventing side, which I know a little more about, she certainly seems to be viewed as a meddler who is inclined to abuse her position of power.
skewbaldpony
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I don't really know the ins and outs and I can't read Princess Haya's response as my computer deletes it as soon as it comes on screen - some dark FEI/Emirates Security Services virus perhaps to prevent us reading her private correspendence
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blimey, that's worrying. Quick, look out of your window. Is there anyone in dark glasses in an unmarked car?
I don't really know the ins and outs and I can't read Princess Haya's response as my computer deletes it as soon as it comes on screen - some dark FEI/Emirates Security Services virus perhaps to prevent us reading her private correspendence
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blimey, that's worrying. Quick, look out of your window. Is there anyone in dark glasses in an unmarked car?
TableDancer
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Actually, there is someone a bit suspicious looking... Oh no, that's my OH
Alibear
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When you think the HH page has dissapeared scroll down a long way and there it is. Took me ages to find it!
cefyl
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However, I do think she needs to be careful not to appear to be running the FEI as a private fiefdom. It may well be that the dressage committee deserved to be ousted but viewed by an outsider (me) it doesn't look like a very democratic process... On the eventing side, which I know a little more about, she certainly seems to be viewed as a meddler who is inclined to abuse her position of power
I agree with you there - her own private kingdom is very on the mark. Her comment about those of us in the UK who oppose the Greenwich site still riles me. The FEI seems to be afraid to death of her. Not the first time I have heard a remark about her abuse her postion of power and her title.
I agree with you there - her own private kingdom is very on the mark. Her comment about those of us in the UK who oppose the Greenwich site still riles me. The FEI seems to be afraid to death of her. Not the first time I have heard a remark about her abuse her postion of power and her title.
brighteyes
Pooh-Bah
What I said.
shokkyy
Active Member
Well, I think everyone involved in the sport has known for a very long time that it's dominated by an in club that has long ago lost touch with the sport it's supposed to be caretaking. That clandestine meeting at the Olympics is simply unconscionable and for that alone somebody somewhere needs to resign.