Olympic cross-country course will challenge

Fence 1

Here’s a sneak preview of a yoke of the fences on the cross-country course of teaching at Greenwich Park, site of the London 2012 Olympic Equestrian Events.

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The three-day-event is the outset equestrian sport at the Olympics, together with the riders receive got known for some fourth dimension that the cross-country challenge across Greenwich Park would live specially demanding

Designed past times Great Britain’s Sue Benson, a former European Eventing squad champion who has been designing courses for “almost xx years”, the course of teaching has been described past times media equally a masterpiece.  The undulations, steep rises together with falls of the parkland receive got non been tamed, only embraced, to practise a 28-fence track, amongst 39 jumping efforts together with iii stopping points, that volition examination them all together with push clitoris the cream to the real top. And all without interfering inward whatever means amongst the site which volition live returned to its original province equally presently equally the Games are over.

Below: interview amongst Sue Benson

Respect for the park, which is the oldest inward London, has been cardinal to her every move, only that has non affected the scale of the examination that horses together with riders volition confront on Monday.  With an optimum fourth dimension of 10 minutes 3 seconds she doesn’t aspect that many volition supply without fourth dimension penalties.

The drib from debate xx … … together with 20b

It is less than iii weeks since the fences were brought into the park.  In appallingly moisture conditions conditions it took 2 JCBs amongst low-profile tyres together with skilled drivers to position them inward house without doing whatever damage.  “At 1 stage nosotros had xiv builders, together with that was sometimes reduced to 8 or 10 – on cross-country hateful solar daytime in that place volition live a 25-strong course of teaching repair crew at the ready,” Benson said.

By the fourth dimension horses hit the 1.45m high together with almost 2m broad Royal Herb Garden hedge oxer at debate 4 they volition live on the gallop, together with the questions come upward up at a relentless charge per unit of measurement all the means or hence the track.  One of the most spectacular obstacles is The Moon, built at the exceed of a steep downhill run amongst a sensational sentiment across the London skyline.

But the riders won’t live doing whatever sightseeing in that place because it is swiftly followed past times The River Bank, mayhap the most charming of Benson’s creations amongst its wild flowers growing or hence the border of a picayune lake busily populated past times characters from the children’s volume “The Wind inward the Willows”.

The quintessentially English linguistic communication subject of the rails is at its finest here, amongst Moley together with Ratty angling on 1 side piece Mr Toad picnics on the far banking concern nether his sunshade.  For the riders, The River Bank volition live all nearly getting dorsum the command they may receive got lost on the steep downhill run inward fellowship to tackle the three-element obstacle.

Wide tables amongst maximum stretch, together with super-tight corners demanding absolute accuracy, are all included, only the biggest thriller may good live the awesome drib at Royal Greenwich Borough, Fence 20, which, if over-ridden, volition movement into real hard indeed to tackle the skinny Village Flower Troughs that follow.  The children of Greenwich produced the montage inward the background of this fence.

The Flower Garden at debate 22 includes xl hanging baskets inward total bloom, together with the Rose Garden at debate 24 is staggering inward its beauty, although the straight describe of piece of occupation across the corner of the hedge hither is a massive examination hence belatedly on the track.  It all finishes upward over The Olympic Horses, an enormous horse-shoe amongst hedge inserted, guarded past times 2 horses inward take-off means at each side which receive got been created past times joining together hundreds of horse-shoes.  Imagination together with flair receive got taken flying all or hence this spectacular track.

The dressage stage takes house on Sabbatum 28 together with Dominicus 29 July, followed past times cross-country on Mon 30. The Dressage Test is OG CCI 4-Star Test B, Short Version.  The examination is here.

The next morning, Tuesday 31, afterwards the 2d Equus caballus inspection, the squad medals volition live decided inward the outset circular of jumping. The top-25 volition together with hence qualify for the private lastly inward the afternoon, in 1 lawsuit again competing inward opposite fellowship of merit together with amongst solely iii riders from each nation permitted to brand the cut.

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