Re: [RC] Ride and Tie as an Olympic event - Maryanne Gabbani
(Raising my hand and wiggling) I know! But they'd have to do Olympic endurance in Egypt every year. I can fetch anyone up 3 miles of farmland riding with at least a couple of camels getting up and down as they get disturbed by horses, a nice diesel water pump, a couple of irrigation ditches to jump, some water buffalo sleeping on the trail, a few flocks of geese and chickens, people popping up and down in a field of clover as they harvest it by hand and if we go out into the desert a little bit there's my favourite...the archaeologists appearing out of holes in the desert like a bunch of oversized gophers. We could provide 3 miles of spills, chills and belly laughs.? I just don't know who would finish....
Maryanne
Cairo
On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:53 PM, Kristen A Fisher wrote:
Cross country jumping has been around a long time and has a lot of proponents esp. as a phase of 3 day evening. They cut the CC course in Greece from 15 miles to 3 so they could afford to keep it in the Olympics. 15 miles was NOT manageable in the 2004 Olympics for a long established and supported equestrian sport - oh and I might add, there are 30+ jumps in the remaining 3 miles -- so there's a LOT going on in that distance.
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What part of distance riding is?only 3 miles and has that varied activity going on?????
I think R & T would be easier adaptable to the Olympics than endurance.? If the length were?shortened to something manageable...say 15 miles...then perhaps...??
