Canadian horse disqualified from Olympic showjumping
at the 2012 London Olympic Games. © Cealy Tetley, www.tetleyphoto.com
Canada’s Olympic showjumping squad has lost a fellow member amongst the disqualification of Victor, ridden yesteryear Tiffany Foster.
Victor, who reportedly has a pocket-sized nick on his coronary band, was disqualified from farther contest at the Greenwich Park venue of London 2012 nether the FEI’s hypersensitivity protocol “due to an expanse of clear together with obvious hypersensitivity on the forepart of the left forelimb”.
Foster said the nick was “like a newspaper cut”.
Less than ane threescore minutes earlier the commence of squad competition, scheduled to commence at 11am, FEI veterinarians entered the stall of Victor. Following a routine exam of the Equus caballus inwards its stall, Terrance Millar, Chef d’Equipe of the Canadian Olympic Team for Show Jumping, was informed that Foster was disqualified nether the FEI’s hypersensitivity protocol.
Millar lodged a protestation which was heard yesteryear the FEI Appeal Committee earlier the destination of the competition. However, the protestation was denied based on Annex XI of the FEI Veterinary Regulations, which state: “there is no appeal against the conclusion of the Ground Jury to disqualify a Equus caballus for abnormal sensitivity from an event.”
The Veterinary Commission stated that the Equus caballus had an expanse of inflammation together with sensitivity on the left forelimb simply to a higher house the hoof. There was no accusation of malpractice, but the Equus caballus was deemed unfit to compete yesteryear the Ground Jury together with was disqualified from the Second Qualifier of the Jumping contest at the Olympic Games on Tuesday morning.
The FEI General Regulations also clearly solid soil that at that spot is no appeal against an elimination of a Equus caballus for veterinary reasons.
“We are extremely disappointed amongst this conclusion every bit Tiffany Foster should receive got been allowed to compete,” Terrance Millar said.
“The Equus caballus has a scratch on its coronary band that occurred overnight.
“This is an unfortunate application of a dominion inwards the absence of context, which has shattered a immature woman’s Olympic dream,” he said.
The passenger was inwards tears during the press briefing over the incident, together with was comforted yesteryear squad captain together with defending private Olympic champion Eric Lamaze.
“I simply desire to enjoin that I would never produce anything to jeopardize the welfare of my Equus caballus together with what happened today was evidently real disappointing together with devastating to me,” Foster said.
“I experience actually bad for my squad together with actually disappointed that this is the agency my commencement Olympic Games are going to end.
“I never imagined when I came to the Olympics that I would endure unable to compete because of something similar this,” Foster said.
It was a sorry destination to the long route Foster had taken to the Olympics. She broke her dorsum simply earlier the Beijing Olympics inwards 2008 after falling from a immature Equus caballus spell training, together with was unable to ride for half-dozen months.
“I’ve come upwards dorsum from bigger setbacks inwards my career, together with I know I tin plough over notice overcome this,” said Foster, who had simply started walking ane time again when she attended the 2008 Olympic Games to cheer the Canadian squad to its silverish medal, together with Lamaze to the private gold,” Foster said.
“Victor is alone 10 years old, together with he has a long together with brilliant career inwards forepart of him. I receive got no incertitude that nosotros volition evidence this inwards the futurity on the international stage.”
The Canadian squad was devastated yesteryear the disqualification, amongst squad stalwart Ian Millar saying: “Our team, all the riders, are devastated yesteryear this situation. We experience it’s simply non right together with it’s an wrong application of the rules but there’s going to endure a procedure together with we’ll encounter what happens.”
An angry Lamaze said it was fourth dimension to accept “a difficult hold off at the FEI’s rules on hypersensitivity”.
Lamaze, the defending Olympic demo jumping champion, is also Foster’s personal coach. His preparation business, Torrey Pines Stable of Schomberg, Ontario, owns Foster’s mountain inwards partnership amongst Artisan Farms.
“I am ashamed of our sport today,” said Lamaze. “This is a consummate miscarriage of justice. Yes, the Equus caballus has a little, superficial cutting on its coronary band that could receive got happened inwards whatsoever break of ways. The Equus caballus was ridden inwards the morning, together with was jumped every bit business office of his exercise routine, amongst no indication whatsoever that he was uncomfortable.
“The Equus caballus was non bothered yesteryear it, together with nosotros had no doubts that competing would non receive got caused whatsoever farther harm. Victor would non receive got gained whatsoever wages together with was ane hundred percentage agree to compete. He would non receive got been wound inwards whatsoever way.
“When the Equus caballus was examined, they touched the right leg amongst no reaction, together with they touched the left leg amongst no reaction. Only when they touched the actual cutting did the Equus caballus demo signs of sensitivity. If someone were trying to attain an advantage, you lot would receive got to assume that both legs would endure sensitive. There is a large departure betwixt ii legs beingness sensitive together with a Equus caballus reacting to beingness touched over together with over together with over ane time again direct on a small, superficial cut. There could non receive got been whatsoever wages gained from that uncomplicated cut, together with inwards no agency was the welfare of the Equus caballus e'er inwards danger.
“The adjacent motion should receive got been to encounter the Equus caballus jog together with seen that he was agree to compete, every bit nosotros knew he was,” Lamaze said.
“If they had whatsoever doubts at all, they could receive got observed the Equus caballus inwards the warm-up at whatsoever fourth dimension or examined the Equus caballus ane time again later on he jumped. The conclusion was made agency likewise quickly. To declare a Equus caballus unfit to compete without fifty-fifty taking it out of its stall is outrageous. Coming to the Olympics is everyone’s dream. Tiffany should never receive got been pose inwards this position.”
“This Equus caballus was exercised inwards the morning, jumped inwards the morning, was agree to compete – agree to compete. How tin plough over notice v people poking at a horse’s coronary band declare him unfit to compete? How tin plough over notice they ruin someone’s Olympic dream?” he said.
Victor together with Tiffany Foster volition accept no farther business office inwards the equestrian events at London 2012.
“I certain promise Canada tin plough over notice win a medal,” said Lamaze. “We lost a non bad teammate. Tiffany tin plough over notice concord her caput high; she has done zip wrong. She was dealt a raw deal.”
On Saturday, Foster, 28, rode Victor, a 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding owned yesteryear the Ziegler family’s Artisan Farms together with Eric Lamaze’s Torrey Pines Stable, inwards her Olympic debut. Foster’s family is inwards London from British Columbia, every bit are the horse’s owners.
The pair two rails downwards for viii faults, making them tied for 60th seat inwards the private standings. Foster’s rails came at the dorsum track of the ‘a’ chemical constituent of the double combination at combat three, together with the dorsum chemical constituent of the ‘a’ chemical constituent of the double combination at combat 12.
Despite the disadvantage of having no drib marking next Foster’s disqualification, the Canadian Olympic squad qualified for Monday’s squad finally together with is currently ranked sixth.
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