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[RC] What Is an FEI "Invitational"? - Linda Marins
OK, this has been bugging me for a long time. What, exactly, is
an
"Invitational" endurance race? Does it mean that only those
competitors
that the host invites can compete? Does it mean that anybody can
come
and compete, but only the invited competitors get their way paid?
How can any endurance "race" that is composed of only hand-picked
invited competitors--or whose field is so vastly skewed in favor
of only hand-picked invited competitors--be considered a Fair
competition?
How can the FEI possibly sanction a race that is made up of
chiefly or exclusively "Invited" competitors?
And most particularly, what compromises to integrity must a
competitor make--both in actions but most particularly in words--
in order to stay on any particular billionaire's "Invited" list?
Linda Marins
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