Michael Payne: "I have watched with dismay, frankly with utter disbelief, as certain groups try to defend their equestrian interests.”
Paris 2024
The first EC online auction fundraiser is underway to support initiatives to send Canadian teams to Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Jumpers get their wish to see the team contest reinstated before the individual; plus new powers to avoid “negative” images for the sport.
Sessions will include World Championship and Olympic updates, standards, veterinary regulations, eventing, dressage and para-dressage rules.
Discussions will include Paris 2024 Olympic/Paralympic regulations, a World Championships progress report, and more.
The approval of the sports program will take place Feb. 2022 and the finalization of events and athlete quotas will be confirmed following Paris 2024.
The International Jumping Riders Club continues to query why countries who will never qualify a rider get to influence big Olympics decisions.
Over 80% of member nations vote to find new fifth discipline as UIPM congress flags up the danger of using tradition to defend your sport.
It is rare for committee members to divulge internal disagreement over major policy decisions, but the future Olympic format continues to divide riders and the FEI.
Moves are afoot to limit voting rights of countries that will never qualify a rider for the Olympics, but far too late to help those who favour teams of four.