Women's Modern Pentathlon - Riding Phase

I really liked some of the horses being trotted up :D :D a very nice smart bay show cob!

Our two athletes have horses that seem to be coping with the atmosphere and crowds well too :)
 
Heart in mouth moments!

Seeing as this is the phase of the MP that is more of a crap shoot than any other, you would imagine that the competitors might focus a bit more developing their riding skills, as this is the phase that is proving pretty expensive on scores and would be one you'd want to nail. You really want to be able to adapt to a situation(horse) more than any other elements of the competition, surely?

Are there any pentathletes on this board? If so, how often do you get the chance to ride a variety of horses?
 
PAINFUL French round! Don't think it would hurt for the commentators to say that she is catching it in the mouth and point out that the horse might not be performing well cos its molars were being removed over every fence. It sounded like they were too concerned about not offending the rider by pointing this out.
 
Lets hope that some of their shooting's better or there will be some dead spectators this evening.
Can't understand why they do not work harder to improve their riding, seems mad to take part at this level other-wise. All the mistakes looked rider error & one of the one's that fell off had such an insecure seat that her participation was surely was a H&S risk.
 
Oh for goodness sake they are all trying their best they don't know the horses and one or two are quite forward. I'd like to see some of you lot trying it:p
 
Haha said:
Oh for goodness sake they are all trying their best they don't know the horses and one or two are quite forward. I'd like to see some of you lot trying it:p
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Pretty confident I could do better actually.;)

But the fact is its not about these athletes 'having a try'. They are meant to has some grasp of the elements of their sport - and these are the best pentathletes in the world :eek: Would you see decathletes or heptatheltes have such a visibly weak link to their programme?

If non horsey people thought 'dancing horses' was cruel, cop a load of this, is all I'm gonna say!
 
bongo-girl said:
Pretty confident I could do better actually.;)

But the fact is its not about these athletes 'having a try'. They are meant to has some grasp of the elements of their sport - and these are the best pentathletes in the world :eek: Would you see decathletes or heptatheltes have such a visibly weak link to their programme?

If non horsey people thought 'dancing horses' was cruel, cop a load of this, is all I'm gonna say!
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What better in all the events?? or just the jumping? If so lets have your name and we must tell the olympic organisers they must have missed you:p
 
Just as well our 1st GB representative doesn't compete at BE, as she might well have been in hot water for bit abuse at the end of her round and IMO she was on the classiest horse in the competition...disgusting. Glad others feel as I do that the riding phase should be taken out/replaced with something else. This is the 2nd Olympics where the standard of both mens and womens riding has been appalling. Have no idea of the amount the riding phase influences the final results but seems it isn't that influential otherwise the competitors would learn how to ride.
 
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