Olympic Eventing SJ Thread

BobbyMondeo said:
Feel very gutted but what a title for Micheal Jung to hold on ...and on his birthday too.

3 riders inside the top 10 though! and Team SILVER!! Brilliant!
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My thoughts exactly! While its a shame we couldn't get an individual medal as well as team one, all our riders finished on amazing scores and the horses are all still fit and well - something we shouldn't forget at the end of the day.

Go team GB!! :D
 
Fools Motto said:
Can't win them all i suppose.. doesn't apply to the Germans though!

Horses are great levellers, there we go. That's it.


Now, on to the hopes our Dressage GB's can raise the roof - if there was one! and bring home the gold..
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I'll be watching the team dressage finals live. It would be fantastic to see Britain win gold.
 
AandK said:
Hang on a minute, are you forgetting we won team silver?!
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Oh don't get me wrong, I am happy and proud of the Silver. The riders did a fantastic job. Its just frustrating. Sitting here in the US with my OH's family going on about all the meals and we have a couple of silvers :(. C'mon we have to admit to have WFP as the drop score and to get none of our first class, world beating riders in the top 3 at the London Olympics sucks.
 
georgiegirl said:
I think calling the germans robots is a bit harsh! Jung looked absolutely flawless in the showjumping!
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I was only joking. I think he is a fabulous rider and has a perfect horse in all three phases, they are what you would emulate if you were building a robot... Its just hard to take that he is so unbeatable!

I think that the Britains did fantastically well. Its so easy to roll a pole when the horses have done so much and there is so much pressure. I wouldn't say they cracked under pressure, out of the eight rounds our team members have done, there were very few poles down - I half expected a lot worse to be honest. They have done very very well.
 
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Firewell said:
Oh don't get me wrong, I am happy and proud of the Silver. The riders did a fantastic job. Its just frustrating. Sitting here in the US with my OH's family going on about all the meals and we have a couple of silvers :(. C'mon we have to admit to have WFP as the drop score and to get none of our first class, world beating riders in the top 3 at the London Olympics sucks.
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Yes, but tell your relatives to look at the size of their country and the number of people they have to choose from compared to other nations - of course they would win more medals - their odds are better!

And we got ALL of our riders in the top 20. Had William and Nicola jumped again, perhaps they would have gone up. Thats the way it goes.

Zara is probably our future "robot" hope - she has had a lifetime of the spotlight and is so unflappable under pressure. Her and her horse are so young, they could soon be giving Germany a run for their money..
 
Firewell said:
Oh don't get me wrong, I am happy and proud of the Silver. The riders did a fantastic job. Its just frustrating. Sitting here in the US with my OH's family going on about all the meals and we have a couple of silvers :(. C'mon we have to admit to have WFP as the drop score and to get none of our first class, world beating riders in the top 3 at the London Olympics sucks.
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Yes, frustrating but the US team is huge (2nd largest after China) so it is no surprise that they have a massive medal tally really just on sheer numbers of competitors.
 
Germany performed fantastically they where better so they won.
We got a silver and all five horses performed amazingly cross country but the Germans out performed us in the dressage and showjumping perhaps the balance of the sport is adjusting once you needed XC horse who would do dressage and SJ now perhaps you are looking at a dressage /SJ horse who also goes cross country.
MJ is an amazing professional sportsman exceptional in al three phases .
Great viewing now back to the real world .
 
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