Heavy is the head that wears the crown—and also the Global Champions League (GCL) leader’s armband. Already, at the tender age of 27, though, Belgium’s Gilles Thomas has proven he...
It was officially a Thijssen family affair on Sunday during the kick-off event of the 2025/2026 Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Western European League season in Oslo, Norway, with no...
It was the legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie who famously coined the phrase, “One coincidence is just a coincidence, two coincidences are a clue, three coincidences are a proof." Of...
Elegance is an attitude. And Harrie Smolders delivers like a postman. I keep being reminded of the former as I watch the Longines Global Champions Tour, streaming live from the...
If you asked Federico Fernández how he was feeling after his win in the CSI5* Otomí Grand Prix, he would say he’d already won long before he even stepped foot...
There’s a first time for everything, and Rene Dittmer (GER) was part of two big firsts at the Highlands Cup. In its inaugural year, sporting a star-studded roster of Olympic...
With only two stops left in the regular season, the GCL standings couldn’t be closer. On Friday, October 10, the Cannes Stars powered by Iron Dames came out swinging in...
And we have a jumpoff! We are in Barcelona at the Longines League of Nations Final. Eight nations plus the host country, Spain, are battling it out for the 2025...
When did I first fall in love? It was never supposed to happen. I was very young and in Chicago on a tourist weekend. Somehow I found myself attracted to...
Notorious B.I.G. captured the idea best in the lyrics of his profound, 1996 smash hit, Mo Money Mo Problems. Biggie would probably agree, though, that the moral of the song is about...
Top-ranked tennis player Iga Świątek—who famously held the World No. 1 ranking for 125 weeks and has won six majors, including the French Open and Wimbledon in 2025—isn’t known for taking...
A great 1.60m horse—we're talking the likes of King Edward, Explosion W, and Caracole de la Roque—wins two to three five-star Grands Prix a year. In 2024, Leone Jei, United...
It’s Friday night in St. Tropez, where the final qualifying leg of the Longines League of Nations is set to take place on Sunday, but tonight is the five-star Grand...
Every child of the 90s and early aughts will remember that iconic, three-beat theme song heralding that long sought-after moment when you dropped down the Super Mario Bros. World 1...
Adrienne Sternlicht has a way of doubling down on strong results. In August, she won not one but two FEI Grands Prix in the space of a single day. And, over the...
In sports, the home advantage is a phenomenon where the home team is statistically more likely to win over the visiting team. According to Scorecasting, NBA teams win 62.7% of...
As the Jackie DeShannon song goes, "what the world needs now is love," and we would add, maybe a little peace. What it didn’t need? Another reminder that two-time Olympic...
In 2016 I had the great privilege of being selected to ride on the Rio Olympic team. I spent a large part of that summer in Europe training with the...
As far as horses are concerned, it’s hard to impress McLain Ward. The five-time Olympic medalist has claimed nearly every title in the books, and he’s done so on the...
