TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Equestrian Eventing Dressage Day 2 Tokyo (JPN), 31 July 2021 FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes The leaderboard began to look a bit more familiar after the final session of Eventing dressage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Baji Koen today. Great Britain remains…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Eventing Day 1 Tokyo (JPN), 30 July 2021 FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes World number one, Oliver Townend, gave the British team the best possible start when taking the individual lead as the Dressage phase kicked off equestrian Eventing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic…
Continue ReadingFEI Talking Horses Kyra Kyrklund, six-time Dressage Olympian for Finland, multiple Nordic and Finnish champion in Dressage, Jumping and Eventing, six-time FEI Dressage World Cup™ finalist and winner of the FEI World Cup™ Final with Matador in 1991 talks to Louise Parkes about her life and times. A hugely popular…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Dressage Day 4 Tokyo (JPN), 28 July 2021 by Louise Parkes Everything about the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been a journey into the unknown. But there was a ring of familiarity combined with a spirit of great sport when Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl claimed…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Dressage Day 3 FEI Press Release – Tokyo (JPN), 27 July 2021 by Louise Parkes Tonight’s victory for Germany in the Dressage team event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will go down in the history books. For the last 27 years the country that…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Dressage Day 2 FEI Press Release – Tokyo (JPN), 25 July 2021 by Louise Parkes Team Germany continued to build up a head of steam when moving to the top of the Dressage Grand Prix leaderboard at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games today. Two great…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Dressage Day 1 FEI Press Release – Tokyo (JPN), 24 July 2021 by Louise Parkes It may have been a long time coming, but the opening day of Equestrian Dressage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games more than lived up to expectations. Emotions ran high…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – DRESSAGE PREVIEW FEI PRESS RELEASE, 20 July 2021 Can Germany make it a fabulous 14? by Louise Parkes Germany has a long and formidable record in Olympic Equestrian Dressage. Since the team competition was first introduced in Amsterdam (NED) in 1928, when the German side…
Continue ReadingFEI Talking Horses, by Louise Parkes Horses and Courses…. As the FEI celebrates its centenary this year, some of the biggest names in modern course design talk about the changes and challenges in the sports of Jumping and Eventing. They may have their very different styles and their own personal…
Continue ReadingThe Netherlands proved unbeatable in the Young Riders category at the FEI Dressage European Championships 2021 for Young Riders, Juniors and Children which came to a close at Oliva Nova in Spain yesterday. However Germany dominated both the Junior and Children’s podiums in a week of great sport. Young Riders…
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