Tokyo Showjumping thread

God! I'm old enough to remember when the SJ was the v last event at the olympics and was held in the middle of the athletic stadium!!

Do they still ride each others horses in the individual final or am I thinking of the Worlds?
 
God! I'm old enough to remember when the SJ was the v last event at the olympics and was held in the middle of the athletic stadium!!

Do they still ride each others horses in the individual final or am I thinking of the Worlds?

That was the worlds, was never done in Olympics and it was thankfully stopped after I think but may be wrong one horse getting really upset by all the change of rider
 
Yay for Team GB ???
Clearly I'm the only person who was finding Lucinda annoying, she was getting right on my tits by the end of it......might go back to listening in Dutch tomorrow ???
I honestly preferred the Dutch to the ambient noise. I could figure out what he was saying (not translate but recognise horse names when he was talking about breeding, recognise place names and people names when talking about where a competitor was based, he spoke about the course design at times) and he seemed to will on most competitors.
 
Yay for Team GB ???
Clearly I'm the only person who was finding Lucinda annoying, she was getting right on my tits by the end of it......might go back to listening in Dutch tomorrow ???
They've been scarred for life by the eventing commentators yesterday! No-one dares complain about Lucinda again in case we get the other guy back :D

I missed it all unfortunately as been out all day but I just caught up on Ben, Scott and Harry. They are beautiful riders aren't they? I think top level showjumping can look quite jarring for the horse, but their rounds were about as harmonious as I could have hoped for. Explosion is absolutely magnificent - the BBC commentators were raving about him!
 
It's been so great watching such amazing quality over the last week or so, I am going to have serious withdrawal once the Games are over :)
Have to say though, there was quite a lot of mouth yanking going on yesterday. Thought the eventers all rode really sympathetically, but some of the showjumpers yesterday were really quite handsy.
 
I fear work is going to get in the way today.

Anyway I thought it was one round of jumping today but just read it's two-phase so we'll get a jump off ?
 
It's on Eurosport 2.at 11am but i have to go out at 12 so am recording it.

I only saw the highlights yesterday on iplayer but something struck me. I haven't really followed showjumping for a while, but the horses seem to have changed to lighter, more blood types. They weren't exactly heavy before but more powerful types or maybe i just remembered them that way.
 
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