Endurance the most high-tech sport of WEG
One of the most technical courses inward recent entitle history volition greet riders inward the endurance contest at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, which gets nether way at 7am local fourth dimension on Th morning.
All 173 horses from 47 nations passed the trot upward for the 160km race at Sartilly, simply over 100km from the primary games venue inward Caen.
The race volition live on run over 5 loops, instead of the green six, and one of the loops takes competitors yesteryear Mont Saint-Michel, i of France’s most iconic landmarks together with a basis heritage site.
This volition equally good live on i of the most closely scrutinised endurance competitions inward recent years, coming hot on the heels of major changes to the rules of the sport.
High-definition video cameras, tamper-proof GPS devices, an approved heart-rate system, together with a specialist timing organization volition live on inward place.
There volition live on 24/7 video surveillance of the stables. Cameras volition equally good monitor the cooling surface area together with balance areas, non to advert the entire vetting area. H5N1 novel FEI vet gate timing organization volition post horses to vet lanes inward strict club of arrival time, automatically diverting horses away from their ain nation’s veterinarian officials.
And organisers enjoin it is i of the most technical courses inward recent entitle history. Loop one, La Lucerne, is 37.9km long together with stretches to the N of the venue. Loop two, Avranches, is 35.8km long, together with includes Mont Saint-Michel. Champeaux, the 3rd loop, is 32.8km long together with covers basis to the W of the venue. The penultimate loop, Jullouville, is 33.1km long piece the in conclusion loop, Dragey, is the shortest at simply 20.4km long, stretching out to the south-west of the venue.
Where to larn – together with when – to come across the riders
Rain inward the portion agency that the terrain may live on to a greater extent than challenging than some nations are accustomed to, but that won’t bother the likes of the New Zealand team, where riders battle varying conditions to participate inward their sport.
New Zealand endurance chef d’equipe Tony Parsons reckons the contest volition non live on “a direct human foot race”.
“(That’s) cracking for teams similar us. It’s going to involve a lot of mental toughness.”
There was enough of pelting when the squad arrived at the endurance stables on Monday, but that didn’t bother Parsons.
“This is endurance riding,” he says. “It rains … nosotros simply larn on amongst it.”
The Kiwi squad was based in Brittany inward the lead-up to the Games, which had been hugely beneficial, Parsons said. And squad member Andrea Smith rode the examination upshot at the Sartilly venue in conclusion year, gathering vital intel for the team.
“We’re inward equally expert a cast equally nosotros could be,” he says. “Anything tin sack occur on the day, together with nosotros are good prepared for that.”
Lining upward for New Zealand inward the i 24-hour interval marathon are woman nurture together with immature lady Andrea together with Georgia Smith (Mangaweka), Alison Higgins (Nelson), who makes her minute WEG team, Braden Cameron (Wellington) together with Susie Latta (Otago).
The Smiths are the outset such Kiwi combination to correspond the sport at an equestrian entitle together, together with at 17 years old, Georgia is believed to live on the youngest ever. The Smiths are non alone; six other teams boast similar connections.
All passed the trot-up, but Andrea Smith’s 11-year-old gelding Glenmore Tariq had to trot out iii times earlier the vet commission, piece Susie Latta together with her 10-year-old Arab standardbred cross mare Tkiwa were sent downward the lane twice.
The dependent plain has the greatest hit of passenger ages taking purpose amidst the 173 starters from 47 nations. At 72, Russian rider Rouslan Gekiev has the seniority, together with the youngest is Italy’s Constanza Laliscia, who is 14.
Hundreds of spectators turned out to lookout the trot up, together with about 5000 visitors are expected on the course.
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