That’s it! I looked it up and it’s
now called the Modern Pentathlon…here is the info from the website. I
didn’t see anything about the next Olympics but they did ride horses in
2004.
Shooting comes first. The pentathletes have 40 seconds to fire 20 shots
from an air pistol at a 17cm-square target from 10 metres. Fencing follows,
with a round-robin competition between each participant. Swimming is third, a
freestyle race over 200 metres, with athletes seeded in heats according to
their personal best times. Once they have dried off, the pentathletes head to
the show jumping ring, where they have 20
minutes to get to know the horse before riding. The final event is
the 3000m run, with the pentathletes set off at intervals corresponding to
their points so the first person across the line wins the gold medal.
From:
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11:24 AM To: ridecamp Subject: Fw: [RC] The last
Olympics
Was this maybe part of the Pentathlon? Supposed
to demonstrate a military scout's ability to get a message back to the
generals ?
Soldier had to do fencing, pistol shooting, swimming running
and riding, what ever it took to get through. Riding to be on whatever
horse they could find on the way.
Truly in the spirit of the first Olympics?
I think I read they were removing the equestrian part
of this event??
There was a competition where the riders had to pull
which horse they were going to ride out of a hat. They then had to compete
in 3 or 4 events, cross-country and jumping were the two I saw and it was
interesting. I wish I hadn’t taped over the events because there was this
young woman from China
who had a very large uncontrollable horse (to her). She fell off once got back
on and kept on going. It was like the keystone cops but that girl had grit!
