RE: FEI Endurance

["Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <gabbani@starnet.com.eg>]

But Tom, endurance is a rotten spectator sport. I kept trying to tell people
that last may when they wanted to build bleachers so that people could sit
for hours in the sun to watch some people ride out of the desert. How on
earth are they going to make an endurance race that can be monitored to an
Olympic standard and televised without making it as boring as watching paint
dry? Or maybe it will be like marathon running and you just get a clip of
the guys staggering into the finish line? I'd think that endurance that
would be interesting to ride would be pretty hard to watch in terms of the
logistics of audience.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
gabbani@starnet.com.eg

In a message dated 8/28/00 7:19:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
guest@endurance.net writes:

<<  Endurance is now the fastest growing Equestrian Sport.
 This is bringing many challanges.We cannot afford the luxury of
 putting our head in the sand and wishing for the "old days". Those are
gone,
 we now have a sport where people are professional, horses have become
valuable
 and prizemeney is becoming significant. This cannot be reversed.
 The FEI want a strong USA participation in International Endurance, we want
 your help in continuing to grow and develop the sport. But FEI Endurance is
 just that "FEI Endurance" and we have rules that cover the whole world, if
you want to
 participate with us you are more than welcome, if not we will be sorry but
the development
 will continue with or without you. >>

This is what I see, too. Should the sport become an Olympic sport, the
change
will accelerate dramatically. It is not logical to expect otherwise. But
then, logic isn't a strong point of this group.

ti


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