Category Archives: Olympics

Blueberry is back! And looks ready to kill it in Rio. Charlotte Dujardin and the great Valegro (aka, Blueberry) returned to FEI competition for the first time in a year on...

Horse and rider selections for the 2016 Olympics are all but final. (Looking at you, Canada). We know who'll be representing in Rio De Janerio for most countries come August....

The USEF has named four athlete-and-horse combinations to the U.S. Olympic Show Jumping Team, plus one traveling reserve combination for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Show Jumping competition at the...

When Laura Graves (USA) and Verdades went supernova in 2014, skyrocketing from relative obscurity to a fourth-place finish at the World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France, it seemed like they...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_0CvmTJFg With the July 18 deadline just weeks away, the race for Olympic team selection has rounded the final corner. Who will make the cut and be named a 2016...

It’s a question weighing on Dirk Stroda’s mind. As the High-Performance Mental Coach for the Canadian eventing, dressage, and Paralympic equestrian teams, it’s Stroda’s job to help elite athletes peak...

The USEF has named four athlete/horse combinations to the U.S. Olympic Eventing Team and one traveling reserve for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Four direct reserve horses have also been...

Zika, severe water pollution, political crisis and rising security concerns—just when the Rio Games could use a little positive press comes another blow: The city needs more money. Brazil's Interm Governor...

Technically, this is a press release. But it comes in Q&A form so that makes it alright to publish. Or not. Either way, that's the way this Friday is rolling......

Eric Lamaze has pegged the 13-year-old Hanoverian mare Fine Lady 5 as his leading hope for the Rio de Janeiro Games this summer. Just don’t expect to see them in...

Move over Simon Delestre. American Olympic champion McLain Ward has shot to the top of the Longines World Rankings. A staple in the world top 10, Ward jumped four spots...

Five 5* classes. Zero rails. Four victories. And a suitcase full of prize money. When in Rome, McLain Ward is a show jumping gladiator. Here's a recap of his stellar streak...

I've gone on at length about the reasons people don't usually choose grooming as their lifelong career. But then, why do I recommend it to every horse lover I know? Why...

What's horse with a dream to do? [fb-video src='https://www.facebook.com/BillytotheOlympics/videos/2021842978040065/'] Why, follow it, of course. [fb-video src='https://www.facebook.com/BillytotheOlympics/videos/2025602367664126/'] Will Billy find his calling? Is the horse with a lightening bolt shaped blaze...

The road to the Rio de Janerio Games has come to a dead end for Japan's Hiroshi Hoketsu. The 75-year-old was one of 11 Japanese riders making a bid for the...

An Op Ed piece in the Harvard Public Health Review is calling for the postponement and/or relocation of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the wake of the Zika virus outbreak...

It was the summer of 2015 and Boyd Martin needed a new horse. With the Rio Olympics on the horizon and the retirement of four-star veterans Otis Barbotiere and Trading...

Before she was an accomplished international show jumper. Before her meteoric rise up the ranks of eventing. Before she even courted the idea of competing in two equestrian disciplines at...

Hudson’s Bay Company unveiled the Team Canada Collection athletes will be wearing at the upcoming 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games. It looks an awful lot like the 2015 Pan American...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_5JiZWChY Charlotte Dujardin held her first clinic in Canada earlier this month, and PSdressage.com was on the scene in Surrey, BC, reporting live all the minute-to-movement action that was this year's most...