All equestrian drug tests clear at Paralympic Games

Belgium’s Barbara Minneci as well as Barilla inward the Grade II Team test. © FEI/Liz Gregg

All equine as well as human samples taking during the para-equestrian competitions at the London Paralympic Games get got tested negative for banned substances.

The FEI welcomed the word that the para-equestrian events had continued the construct clean sport success of the London Olympic equestrian events.

Para-equestrian dressage, the exclusively equestrian dependent included inward the Paralympic Games, has been a regular fixture on the Paralympic schedule since Atlanta inward 1996.

In 2006, the FEI became i of the start international federations to principle as well as regulate a sport for para-athletes when para-equestrian dressage joined the ranks of the FEI’s 7 disciplines.

All equine athletes competing inward the Paralympic Games are at i time tested according to the FEI’s equine anti-doping rules.

“All human as well as equine samples taken during the Paralympic equestrian events inward Greenwich Park get got been confirmed negative,” FEI Secretary General Ingmar de Vos said.

“This is an extremely proud twenty-four hours for the FEI as well as the international equestrian community – equestrian sport has been construct clean at both the London 2012 Olympic as well as Paralympic Games.

“The London 2012 Paralympic Games get got been genuinely astonishing, touching the hearts as well as minds of millions of people roughly the world, as well as key to the success of hereafter Games is this focus on construct clean sport as well as fair play.”

A amount of 78 human as well as 77 equine athletes from 27 nations competed inward London’s Greenwich Park.

London welcomed a record-breaking 4250 athletes who competed inward 503 events over 12 days at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, making them the biggest since the start Paralympic Games took identify inward Rome inward 1960.

Over 120,000 tickets were sold for the half-dozen Para-Equestrian Dressage contest days, as well as alongside additional tickets sold at the gates of Greenwich Park, the previous ticket sales tape of 33,000 at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games was easily surpassed.

In total, 2.7 1000000 tickets were sold for the London 2012 Paralympic Games, compared to the previous tape of 1.8 1000000 for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.

Pictures of this year’s Paralympics were shown to a global audience of over a billion people inward over 100 countries, thank yous to the International Paralympic Committee’s broadcast partnerships inward identify roughly the basis as well as its ain broadcast arrangement ParalympicSport.TV.

“The London 2012 Paralympic Games were precisely the biggest as well as the best nonetheless for many reasons,” International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven said.

“We are delighted that the equestrian events at Greenwich Park were clean. Clean sport is key to the hereafter evolution of all sports, whether they are already inward the Paralympic programme or desire to i twenty-four hours bring together us.

“Clean sport at the Paralympic Games is also the best lawsuit nosotros tin brand to youngsters who dream of representing their dry soil inward the future.

“The Para-Equestrian athletes who competed inward London get got inspired warm welcomes on returning home, as well as the International Paralympic Committee hopes to encounter them i time again at Rio 2016, for the start Olympic as well as Paralympic Games to accept identify inward South America.”

The break of FEI Para-Equestrian Dressage events has increased yesteryear 120 per cent betwixt 2008 as well as 2011, as well as every bit the popularity of the sport grows the break of events beingness held roughly the basis is steadily increasing.

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