Top 10 finish for Canada’s 10-time Olympian
Canadian Olympic squad fellow member Ian Millar enjoyed a overstep x complete inward the private showjumping concluding at London 2012 on Wednesday, rounding out his record-making tenth Olympic appearance.
Finishing tied for 9th house riding Star Power alongside a sum of 8 faults, Millar, 65, had his best always private Olympic result. Millar together with the 11-year-old Dutch-bred gelding owned past times Team Works incurred iv faults inward the start circular at debate publish five, an airy white plank, together with had the ‘b’ chemical division of the triple combination inward the minute circular of competition.
“There are then many subtleties to this thing,” said Millar of the demanding tracks laid past times class designer Bob Ellis of Great Britain. “The passenger together with the horses are then good, together with the class designer has to endure then good. The contest is actually against the class designer.”
Before London, Millar’s best Olympic outcome to engagement had come upwardly at the 2000 Sydney Olympics where he placed 13th riding Dorincord. He besides placed 14th individually at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics together with 15th at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, riding Big Ben on both occasions.
“Each Olympics stands out good on their own; London is outstanding,” said Millar, who has straight off competed inward to a greater extent than Olympic Games than whatsoever athlete inward whatsoever sport, debuting at the 1972 Munich Olympics. “The populace convey been then supportive together with sympathetic. I am real much a squad rider, together with I would convey liked to a greater extent than squad companionship alongside me today.”
Millar together with 2008 Olympic Champion Eric Lamaze were the solely 2 members of the squad to advance to the private final. The overstep 37 athletes from the master starting champaign of 75 qualified for the two-round final.
Lamaze, 44, of Schomberg, Ontario, incurred 12 faults inward the start circular together with did non advance to the minute together with concluding circular of competition. He tied for 29th compass inward the concluding private standings.
“I didn’t wake upwardly this morn seeing myself on the podium, then I am non disappointed,” said Lamaze, who was riding the nine-year-old Belgian Warmblood mare Derly Chin de Muze, owned past times the Fleischhacker family’s Ashland Stables together with Lamaze’s Torrey Pines Stable.
“She’s jumped a lot of large tracks this week, which she’s non used to, together with perhaps it was but fatigue. She’s young, but she gained sense together with came out of this a improve horse.”
Lamaze continued, “These were supposed to endure Hickstead‘s Games together with when the tragedy happened, nosotros but didn’t convey fourth dimension to prepare.”
Hickstead collapsed together with died of an aortic rupture finally Nov spell competing at a earth loving cup qualifying lawsuit inward Verona, Italy. Under 2012 Olympic Games qualifying rules, horses must endure registered inward the ownership of the nation they volition stand upwardly for past times Dec 31, 2011.
On Monday, August 6, the Canadian squad of Tiffany Foster, 28, Jill Henselwood, 49, Lamaze together with Millar, complete 5th inward the squad concluding from the starting champaign of fifteen nations. Great United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland won squad gold spell the Netherlands claimed squad silver. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia won squad bronze, together with Switzerland placed fourth.
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