Olympic Eventing xc thread

Not convinced that Marcio jumped that hanging log coming out of the water - his front end just about got over but his back end came round the side !!
 
so it's just come up on screen to say the last Brazilian rider was eliminated? Also says the same on the FEI website.

confused now, I thought he had jumped them all?
 
Lizzie66 said:
Not convinced that Marcio jumped that hanging log coming out of the water - his front end just about got over but his back end came round the side !!
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I didn't think the back end mattered, same thing happened to Phillip Dutton at once fence but because the shoulders were in it was okay.
 
sasquatch said:
so it's just come up on screen to say the last Brazilian rider was eliminated? Also says the same on the FEI website.

confused now, I thought he had jumped them all?
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He had a couple of iffy ones - the hanging log out of the water and also at the next water the last skinny was close as to whether he was the right side of the flags
 
Lizzie66 said:
He had a couple of iffy ones - the hanging log out of the water and also at the next water the last skinny was close as to whether he was the right side of the flags
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I thought he managed to get away with them? Looked as though the front end stayed in so he should have been ok, but sure that's what the ground jury and replays are for!

I'm going to try and rewatch Ingrid when it's on iPlayer, so I may try and rewatch that one too.

on another note, do you think any of the riding today was truly awful and/or yellow card worthy? seeing some things on twitter to say some riders were atrocious but I'm not sure I agree.
 
Well that just goes to show how you can be up one week and down the next with horses.

Watched it with a sinking heart. Really disappointed for William, I wanted him to do well after his terrible accident. Sad for all connections of the British team.

I have to say I didn't think Kitty rode that slowly either. :(
 
I know the xc has caused problems for many good riders but I'm really disappointed that not one British rider managed a clear round either inside or outside the time today.
 
ossy said:
I know the xc has caused problems for many good riders but I'm really disappointed that not one British rider managed a clear round either inside or outside the time today.
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This.

I've felt like the British team have stagnated in the last couple years, hopefully this might be a kick up the bum to try and sort things out. It's felt like we've relied on WFP and his massive string of horses in every championship recently. We used to be a power house in the 2000s, and I don't think we've shown that form since 2010 WEGs.

(Don't shoot me)
 
Shake up is coming as this is Yogi's last championship. So next Euros, WEG and Olympics will be under a new performance manager. I'd love to know to what the selectors are thinking right about now as ultimately they play a big part in this too, and when your sport is funded in part off the back of Olympic results...
 
ScottyJ said:
This.

I've felt like the British team have stagnated in the last couple years, hopefully this might be a kick up the bum to try and sort things out. It's felt like we've relied on WFP and his massive string of horses in every championship recently. We used to be a power house in the 2000s, and I don't think we've shown that form since 2010 WEGs.

(Don't shoot me)
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Totally wfp on top form would have gone left and not had 20 pens but I am pleased to see him back as there was a time I really didn't think he would. Can't really complain too much about pippa she's out shone some that were picked over her to start with. And shoot me down but I really think high kingdom would have managed that xc today 😳
 
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I has planned to record the XC on my virgin box, however i have now learnt that they changed the channel at the last minute! Sooooooooooo p****ed off! Does anyone know where I can catch up on the coverage? I can not see anything on the red button or BBC sport website! I can't believe they have done that! I was looking forward to watching it all day and in the search to try and find it to watch I pretty much know all of the results anyway! It's just outrageous.
 
sasquatch said:
I thought he managed to get away with them? Looked as though the front end stayed in so he should have been ok, but sure that's what the ground jury and replays are for!

I'm going to try and rewatch Ingrid when it's on iPlayer, so I may try and rewatch that one too.

on another note, do you think any of the riding today was truly awful and/or yellow card worthy? seeing some things on twitter to say some riders were atrocious but I'm not sure I agree.
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No-one particularly stood out as warranting it to me. I didn't like Shane Rose's riding at the last water when his horse was clearly tired but he was lovely round the rest of it.
 
Rmarshmallow said:
I has planned to record the XC on my virgin box, however i have now learnt that they changed the channel at the last minute! Sooooooooooo p****ed off! Does anyone know where I can catch up on the coverage? I can not see anything on the red button or BBC sport website! I can't believe they have done that! I was looking forward to watching it all day and in the search to try and find it to watch I pretty much know all of the results anyway! It's just outrageous.
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I sat through 10 minutes of rowing until saw on here that it had started. I flicked through to find it. The programme guide on the actual box listed it incorrectly and Equestrian was on the one that said rowing.
 
ossy said:
Totally wfp on top form would have gone left and not had 20 pens but I am pleased to see him back as there was a time I really didn't think he would. Can't really complain too much about pippa she's out shone some that were picked over her to start with. And shoot me down but I really think high kingdom would have managed that xc today ��
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I'm not going to shoot you down because I am a big fan of Zara Tindall and High Kingdom and think she would have been a worthy addition to the team - alongside Tina Cook.

I appreciate that hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I have heard it said, and read it on here, that Rio eventing was going to be "a dressage competition". With a few exceptions at the top end of the leader board I really don't think that has proven to be the case. Zara and Tina have a depth of championship experience that I personally believe would have been put to very good use today.
 
Rmarshmallow said:
I has planned to record the XC on my virgin box, however i have now learnt that they changed the channel at the last minute! Sooooooooooo p****ed off! Does anyone know where I can catch up on the coverage? I can not see anything on the red button or BBC sport website! I can't believe they have done that! I was looking forward to watching it all day and in the search to try and find it to watch I pretty much know all of the results anyway! It's just outrageous.
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Me too , this time with sky am gutted puts it mildly
 
Oh hands up here, I was one of the ones saying we needed horses capable of 30s/low 40s dressage to be in with a shout. But I still stand by that - that's where the leaders are, and that's modern competition for you. I don't think anyone who was arguing that point of view thought that we didn't need strong jumping performances too. As it turned out, we didn't deliver that today.

Tina Cook's horse is no more experienced than Pippa's, Zara is unlikely to have done a good dressage and been quick across country. On form, Quicklook and Ceylor LAN were better choices. It didn't happen for us. Sometimes competitions go that way. There were a lot of people having problems today that you wouldn't have predicted beforehand.

Me, I'm not quibbling with the selectors. I don't think we've got a lot of really top 4* horses to pick from and we've been unlucky this time round.
 
We have some really great up and coming combinations, I think we took a risk in picking slightly less experienced horses we thought would be strong in dressage and today it didn't pay off. A lot of other countries that are usually slightly behind us on the leaderboard didn't have that dilemma and so when the course was a bit tougher than expected weren't hit quite as hard.

Pippa and William both had very unlucky mistakes. I'm assuming Kitty's stop was unlucky too because Ceylor LAN looked great from everything we saw of him. Gemma's horse was green which was the risk we took picking one of her less experienced horses...

Just wasn't our day.
 
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