Amidst concerns over quarantine for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, FEI president Ingmar De Vos says he is confident that equine health certificates will be finalized by the month’s end and that horses from Canada, the United States and Europe will be able to enter Brazil. In a statement released October 7th, De Vos said: […]
Today marks the one-year countdown to the opening ceremonies of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where equestrian sport will celebrate 104 years in the Olympic movement at the first Games to be held in South America. The world’s best horses and riders will compete for medals in the Olympic disciplines of eventing, dressage and jumping […]
In April 2015, a police horse from the city of Vitoria, located over 500 kilometres from Rio, was diagnosed with glanders. This horse had left the Army Equestrian School in Deodoro ‒ site of the Olympic Equestrian venue ‒ in November, 2014, having previously tested negative to glanders three times. As this horse had resided […]
The Olympic Equestrian Test Event – the Aquece Rio (“Warm Up Rio”) International Horse Trials – gets underway on August 6, 2015, a day after celebrations in Brazil to mark the one-year countdown to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Representatives from 16 national federations, including athletes and officials, will travel to the Olympic Equestrian Centre […]
The United States’ Dressage Team’s gold-medal win in the team event at the Pan American Games on Sunday earned them an automatic qualifying spot for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Sabine Schut-Kery, Kimberly Herslow, Laura Graves and Steffen Peters combined scores totalled 460.506, ahead of Canada’s silver medal effort (454.938 pts) and Brazil, which took the […]
The FEI has announced the long list from which the members of the Ground Jury officiating at the Rio 2016 Olympic Dressage events will be drawn. The 12 highly experienced 5* judges that make up the long list are Maribel Alonso (MEX), Susanne Baarup (DEN), Stephen Clarke (GBR), Annette Fransen-Iacobaeus (SWE), Andrew Gardner (GBR), Peter […]
