The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) has named four athlete-and-horse combinations to the U.S. Paralympic Equestrian Team for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Para-dressage competition at the Paralympic Games will take place September 11-16, 2016, at the Deodoro Olympic...
Here’s our final post from Rio de Janeiro and the 2016 Olympic Games. If you missed them, go back and read part one, where we look at the eventing competition and some of the scary events that took place...
Yesterday’s first round of team show jumping competition at the Rio 2016 Olympics brought mixed emotions for supporters of the U.S. team. The Americans progressed with no faults on the team score and in a four-way tie for first...
Embed from Getty ImagesTap the arrows on the side of the image above to scroll through the slideshow. Show Jumping at the Rio 2016 Olympics continued today with the second individual/first team round. Today's round determines which eight teams will...
Embed from Getty ImagesTap the arrows on the image above to scroll through the slideshow. Of the three Olympic equestrian sports, show jumping enjoys the most widespread popularity. More countries send athletes for jumping than for dressage or eventing. It’s...
Embed from Getty Images As the top-ranked horse-and-rider team after the Grand Prix, Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro were the last pair to go today in the Grand Prix Special. However, they came in to a situation where almost anything could...
Dressage competition got underway today at the Rio 2016 Olympics. The first team and individual riders completed their grand prix tests under steel-gray skies and rain started to fall on the Olympic Equestrian Center by afternoon. Half of the...
Embed from Getty ImagesTap the right and left arrows on the image to scroll through the slideshow. With the dressage phase of three-day eventing completed today at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the top of the leaderboard looks much the same...
Embed from Getty Images The first day of equestrian competition at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro has concluded with approximately half of the three-day eventing riders having completed their dressage tests. William Fox-Pitt and his veteran mount, Chilli...
When Bromont, Quebec, won the hosting duties for the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games, the location was poised to be only the second host outside of Europe in the event’s history. Bromont, which is near Montreal, is no stranger...
