Olympic appeal by Aust dressage rider fails

Hayley Beresford together with Belissimo.

An appeal past times Australian Hayley Beresford to endure promoted to the country’s Olympic dressage squad has failed.

The 34-year-old rider, who competed at the Beijing Olympics inwards 2008, was non selected for London 2012. She took her grievance to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) inwards Switzerland, but lost her appeal. An before independent Appeals Tribunal also dismissed an appeal past times Beresford.

Riders selected to the 2012 squad for Commonwealth of Australia are Mary Hanna, together with cousins Lyndal Oatley together with Kristy Oatley.

Beresford has pose upward around skillful results on Belissimo inwards the Pb upward to the Olympics, together with was ranked 3rd with her grand prix scores at the choice trials.

After she made the appeal to the CAS, Beresford said: “Please empathise that I take away hold non taken this determination lightly. I recognise that my determination affects people other than myself together with I’m misfortunate for whatever wound that my actions mightiness cause, but I personally experience it is a affair of importance that I accept all avenues available to me to accomplish my dream of competing at a minute Olympic Games.”

In a disceptation yesterday, Equestrian Commonwealth of Australia rejected “the fake together with unfounded allegations” made inwards the media inwards relation to the choice of the dressage team, “and to a greater extent than particularly, the failure to select Hayley Beresford” .

EA Chairman Paul Cargill said the dismissal of both of Beresford’s appeals confirmed that the master selections stood “and recent performances outcomes are only non able to endure taken into account.”

“EA fully supports its dressage team, its selectors together with its squad officials together with stands correct behind them,”  he said.

“We laissez passer the axe all allegations made, especially those that are unsourced together with are non accompanied past times anything other than a personal persuasion of what should take away hold been.  Ms Beresford has had the chance to pose her illustration before ii appellate bodies together with she has non succeeded with either.

“It is instantly fourth dimension for our selected athletes to become on with their labor together with create their talking where it counts, at Greenwich Park,” Cargill said.

The determination past times the Court of Arbitration for Sport is final, with the findings to endure released inwards the coming days.

• Australia qualified for the Olympic squad dressage contest equally a final result of their surgical operation at the two-part regional qualifier held inwards Sydney together with the Netherlands inwards 2011. The procedure for qualification together with thus began, with ii choice events – ane inwards Mannheim, Deutschland together with the other inwards Compiegne, France.

At the goal of the two-round nomination process, 31-year-old Lyndal Oatley was the highest placed athlete – having finished both events equally the top-placed Australian. Her mountain is the 11-year-old bay stallion Sandro Boy.

“The Sydney Olympics was my starting fourth dimension ‘in-person’ introduction to dressage at such a high international level,” Oatley said.

“I sat inwards the stadium together with was thus inspired to ride at such an trial with nifty riding, amazing horses, the atmosphere together with the admiration of what it must accept to accomplish such a score of training.”

One of her inspirations inwards Sydney was cousin Kristy, Australia’s close successful dressage Olympian to appointment having finished ninth inwards the private together with 6th inwards the squad events riding Wall Street at the 2000 Games.

For Lyndal, having the chance to ride amongst her cousin is an added bonus to making her starting fourth dimension Olympic Team.

“You take away hold to dear keeping it inwards the family!” Lyndal said. “This is such a unique province of affairs to endure in, together with it’s actually exciting non entirely for us competing, but for our family. We are a sporty family, together with are really driven, but nosotros are also skillful sports – thus nosotros volition all endure supporting ane another.”

Lyndal volition also compete against her hubby Patrik Kittel, who competes for Sweden together with is also commonly her coach.

“When it comes to competing with Patrik, nosotros are really used to competing against ane around other together with nosotros are nonetheless happily married,” Lyndal said. “So nosotros know how to residue life together with our sport together with must endure doing it correct thus nosotros modify nothing!”

Although Commonwealth of Australia has never won an Olympic medal inwards dressage, recent international results take away hold been a potent boost for the Aussies leading into London. In 2010, Commonwealth of Australia posted their best squad dressage final result inwards history at the World Equestrian Games, finishing eighth.

Rounding out the squad is 57-year-old Mary Hanna who volition brand history equally the starting fourth dimension Australian dressage athlete to compete at iv Olympics.

Originally a showjumper together with eventing rider, Hanna switched to dressage inwards her twenties together with never looked back. As good equally her Olympic campaigns, Hanna has represented Commonwealth of Australia 3 times at the World Equestrian Games together with FEI World Cup Finals. Coming off the dorsum of a 4th placing at the 2011 Hickstead CDI3* Grand Prix Freestyle, Hanna volition endure looking to print inwards London.

The dressage contest inwards London starts on the 6th solar daytime of the games.

 

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