In a message dated 5/15/2008 12:20:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
However,
it should serve as warning to endurance rides...trust me on this one.
You do NOT (as in not, not, not, not, not) want endurance as an Olympic
sport. Keeping "eventing" (if you want to call it that now that it
has been changed into a different test) in the Olympics, destroyed the
sport.
The Olympics would be the road to ruin for
endurance.
Kat I agree completely with you on this. For better or most likely
for worse, part of my degrees study included in depth historic study of sport,
mainly amateur, and I can imagine Mr. Brundage would be rolling in his grave if
he saw what the Modern Olympics had become. No, it would NOT be a positive thing
to take endurance into a venue that is does not fit, cannot benefit from, and
would then be just one more target for the animal rights advocates to try to
take away the serene pleasure of partnering with a suitable - SUITABLE -
equine partner for various sports. The good would be punished with the
horrendous. No thank you.
