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The original Olympic games was for males - except for the equestrian 
events. Yes there equestrian events in the original games - but  they 
were for women only.

In some respects as the definition of the Olympics stands today, it 
represents the accomplishments of humans - if horses have a place can be 
debated. In reality equestrian events cost a lot to build the facilities 
and run the events. Given the issues today with international transport 
of horses that causes even bigger issues and additional cost. It cost 
the Atlanta games quite a bit for the quarantine of the non US horses to 
prevent certain diseases from being transported to the US. I will be 
interested to see who takes horses to China and how many come back.

Given these issues and the IOC statement that they want to eliminate 
events - the equestrian events are I suspect on the top of the list to cut.

Truman

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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what 
we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." Bertrand 
Russell


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