Re: Unofficial WEG Team

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Carlos writes:



> Endurance is not a team sport where each member has to learn to
> play with all the others in order to be successful, as you would in
> basketball, etc. It is an individual sport where , at the end, you add-up
> the individual performance of each rider. There is really very little
> one rider can do to help another rider succeed. They each have
> to ride their own race. Even the believe that riding together the
> horses motivate each other is hard to accept since the horse rider
> teams come from different parts of the country and most probably
> have never ridden together.
>

Ah, but this is where you are wrong.  The WEC IS a
team competition FIRST and that is our goal...to
send the best TEAM!!!

It IS possible to ride as a team...the French do
it and do it well.  There is MUCH strategy that we
have not taken from others sports (yet) thant CAN
and DO make a difference in the outcome.  We have
MUCH to learn about being team players.  I assure
you, Rick Stewart is going to be his best (with
the support of many) to make this years' WEG a
TEAM effort to win the TEAM gold (which the USA
has never done - excpet fo Kansas -whole 'nother
story).  It takes cooperation among riders...hard
to accomplish since we don't have the experience
(or present mindset due to our "normal" way of
competing here). We will be asking ALL crews to
work for ALL riders as well as asking ALL riders
to obey the orders of the Chef 'd Equip.  A tough
job, no matter how you look at it.

Teddy