Some 11,551 athletes will compete in the 2016 Rio Games, contesting 306 events in 28 different sports. All come to Brazil with the same dream—Olympic glory. But only a fraction...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2AP6RRrBjM Imagine you’re speeding down a highway in Porsche. Only you can’t see because it’s raining… No, scratch that. You’re blindfolded! Heading toward a brick wall at Mach speed. And...
Zika, questionable water purity, personal transportation—Spain's Pilar Lucrecia Cordon likely planned for many contingencies coming into the Rio Games. But nothing could have prepared her for what she and Gribouille du...
BRA-ZIL! BRA-ZIL! BRA-ZIL! It was the chant of a few thousand Brazilian show jumping fans as riders from the host country set hoof in Deodoro Olympic Park stadium today for the...
Just two days into Olympic Show Jumping in Rio and there has been no shortage of controversy. During Sunday's opening individual round, two riders were disqualified by the ground jury...
Great Britain's Nick Skelton is appealing his four faults at the water jump on Day 2 of the jumping qualifier at the Rio Olympics after the jump judge ruled his...
Day 1 of show jumping at the Olympic Games in Rio. If you were Germany's alternate rider, Meredith Michaels Beerbaum, you'd be looking forward to a relaxing day of cheering...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ1z-Nvgi2c This week, American show jumper Lucy Davis, 24, jumps on the biggest stage of her career, to date, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As an Olympic rookie, riding on...
They strode into the packed stadium at Deodoro Olympic Park in Rio de Janiero, picked up a gallop, and took a long lap before the clang of the start bell....
There is a lot of recent discussion about the hunter divisions and the many problems surrounding the sport. This is a topic that has been debated since the 1970's when...
Between his towering 6'4" frame and penchant for bold fashion choices, Danny Ingratta is hard to miss at the show ring. But it's his outgoing personality that makes the Canadian...
The first time I made the team it was by default. It was 2011. Andy and Carlene Ziegler (owners of Artisan Farms) had just bought me a horse, Southwind VDL,...
It's been an eventful two days for Richard and Kaylen Spooner, who were forced to evacuate their farm and horses on the evening of July 24th following the spread of...
It was a crazy time. Russia was set to host the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Six months before the Games they invaded Afghanistan. In protest, the Americans lead a boycott...
Let's be clear, I acknowledge this is a first world problem. It’s even an upper echelon first world problem. I have a horse, Rose, that I bought as a not inexpensive...
Anyone who has ever taken the time to search "Karl Cook" on Twitter (no, just me?) knows that the Internet is rife with photos of the Californian rider kissing his...
Everybody knows how the system is supposed to work. If there are four jumps in the warm-up ring, you find the person who goes four before you, and you wait...
She’s a Stanford student during the week and moonlights as a show jumper on the weekend. Jennifer Gates, daughter of tech-magnate-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates, may be a billionaire by blood but...
When most people come into an unexpected windfall, they take a bit of that money and spend it on something frivolous. A dinner out at a fancy restaurant. A vacation...
