Hey! I just realized that I don’t remember seeing much about equestrian events at this year’s Olympics. They just sort of fell off the map I guess because they have to be done in daylight and China’s daylight hours are when America is sleeping. Whereas swimming, gymnastics and track can all be done indoors in lighted areas.

Unfortunately, it seems that doping is even present among equestrian athletes as there were four horses suspended for testing positive for capsaicin including one horse that was in the 4 horse team jumping bronze medal winners from Norway.

Team USA came away with the Gold in team jumping after a flawless jump-off against Canada, a Bronze in individual jumping and a silver in individual eventing. Not too bad a haul.

I thought the equestrian clothing for our teams was especially dashing. You can view the teams and videos of the performances over at NBC

Equestrian sports are unique for the Olympics in that they are the only sport where any athletes other than humans compete.

Tags: Bronze medal, Equestrian at the 1928 Summer Olympics, Equestrian at the 1956 Summer Olympics, Equestrian at the Summer Olympics, Equestrianism, Hong Kong, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, Olympic Games

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