The FEI president has welcomed the announcement of the new dates for the Tokyo Olympics, running July 23-Aug. 8, and Paralympics Aug. 24- Sept. 5, 2021.

The FEI is creating discipline-specific task forces to evaluate the impact of the pandemic and subsequent Olympic postponement and event cancellations.

Following last week’s recommendations from the World Health Organization, the FEI has issued a further message to the equestrian community.

The annual event, which was slated for April 6-7, 2020, in Lausanne (SUI), has been moved to online-only because of in-transit risk to participants.

The FEI scrapped ranking points won at a controversial jumping venue in France, but the FFE finds it ‘painful’ the shows went ahead in the first place.

A total of 48 countries will be represented in equestrian at the Olympic Games, with Luxembourg, Pakistan and Israel making their debuts.

Jessica von Bredow-Werndl celebrated her 33rd birthday with a win in the third leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup Western European League with TSF Dalera BB.

The FEI’s Jumping Director John Roche, who has played a key role since first joining the Federation in May 1987, will retire at the end of February.

The Netherlands’ Emmelie Scholtens and Desperado NOP took another step towards stardom with a superb victory in the FEI Dressage World Cup in Belgium.

The FEI’s disciplinary body has recruited fresh talent from other sports – but their absence of equestrian experience is causing a stir.