Tokyo Olympic Games 2020/1

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They need to get rid of the riding element for the welfare of the horses. Those horses they had were of such a good calibre and to compete at 1.20 you should really have your tit together and not use the reins to balance, socking the poor horse in the mouth and then getting crappy when it refuses and booting it with spurs and slapping it with the whip.
Yes, I felt for Annika as Saint Boy had already been given a horrendous ride and so he didn’t want to do it. It wasn’t him simply being naughty, he had a strong bit in his mouth, had lost his confidence because of previous rider and was extremely hot and bothered by it.
The judges should have spotted this and said actually, we will swap this horse out but instead everyone stood by and watched. Equally, as a horsewoman, you should have recognised this and spoken to someone at the gate in the name of horse welfare. The horses don’t choose to be there and it may take him a long time to get his confidence back and Annika will no doubt now get a lot of hate online aswell as having her Olympic dreams disappear.
I think I saw maybe 3 or 4 people who I would say were capable riders (coming from a previous instructor/yard manager and as someone with an animal behavioural science and welfare degree).

that’s my Friday rant done and dusted 😂
 
Merpedy said:
Thing with pentathlons and other stuff is that often the athletes will be really good at one and not the other activities, usually it's the last one because that's where most of the advantage will be coming from

It's sort of a waste of their time to be getting good at riding, but also too expensive for the individual teams to be funding their own horses and what not
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My dopey husband asked why our girls in the modern pentathlon couldn't just ride Explosion W 😂😂. Pal there is probably over a million pounds worth of quality horse there, they rnt just going to shove anyone on it.
 
ElektraWintour said:
Channel 4 are definitely showing the Paralympics as they’ve been advertising it for a while with the song from Bugsy Malone 😅

Pretty sure Last Leg are doing their shows too as I’m sure they mentioned it at the end of the last series.

An acquaintance of mine is a Para athlete and heading to Tokyo (my clutching at straws claim to fame 🤣) so I’ll be tuning in.
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Same,🏊🏻‍♂️, almost famous😉
 
MyLittlePony25 said:
They need to get rid of the riding element for the welfare of the horses. Those horses they had were of such a good calibre and to compete at 1.20 you should really have your tit together and not use the reins to balance, socking the poor horse in the mouth and then getting crappy when it refuses and booting it with spurs and slapping it with the whip.
Yes, I felt for Annika as Saint Boy had already been given a horrendous ride and so he didn’t want to do it. It wasn’t him simply being naughty, he had a strong bit in his mouth, had lost his confidence because of previous rider and was extremely hot and bothered by it.
The judges should have spotted this and said actually, we will swap this horse out but instead everyone stood by and watched. Equally, as a horsewoman, you should have recognised this and spoken to someone at the gate in the name of horse welfare. The horses don’t choose to be there and it may take him a long time to get his confidence back and Annika will no doubt now get a lot of hate online aswell as having her Olympic dreams disappear.
I think I saw maybe 3 or 4 people who I would say were capable riders (coming from a previous instructor/yard manager and as someone with an animal behavioural science and welfare degree).

that’s my Friday rant done and dusted 😂
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I couldn’t agree more. I watched a couple of rounds and had to switch over, it was so painful to watch those horses getting their mouths yanked and jarred 😣
 
Love the Madison, always drama. Would have been great to get the gold but silver will do nicely especially seen as even the bronze looked in doubt at one point.

I read the German coach has got into bother for hitting the horse that was not happy in the womens modern pentathlon. Absolutely disgusting. Felt sorry for the German rider as the horse obviously didnt want to play but WTF why would someone punch a horse!
 
It really is comedy riding in the modern pentathlon. Not nice to watch but I can't stop watching. It seems like a "jack of all trades, master of none" event. Doesn't really scream Olympic excellence, but hey we got a gold medal.
 
JellyBean080 said:
🥇 Joe in the Modern Pentathlon, what a strange combo of events.
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What a strong runner he is!

What's your point said:
Love the Madison, always drama. Would have been great to get the gold but silver will do nicely especially seen as even the bronze looked in doubt at one point.

I read the German coach has got into bother for hitting the horse that was not happy in the womens modern pentathlon. Absolutely disgusting. Felt sorry for the German rider as the horse obviously didnt want to play but WTF why would someone punch a horse!
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What a bastard he needs to be punched.😠
 
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