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Equine events began at the Olympics in 1900, when competitions in polo (considered by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to be a separate sport from the other equestrian events), vaulting, four-in-hand driving, mail coach driving, mixed hacks and hunters and three types of jumping (high jump, long jump and show-jumping) were held.
This is the list of Olympic medals stripped by the IOC, the governing body of the Olympics. Stripped team medals are counted once each, regardless of the size of the team stripped or how many team members were disqualified, although a stripped team medal usually entails the return of multiple physical medals, one per team member.
1984 Summer Olympics boycott: The Soviet Union and fourteen of its allies boycotted the 1984 Games held in Los Angeles, United States, citing a lack of security for their athletes as the official reason. The decision was regarded as a response to the United States-led boycott issued against the Moscow Olympics four years earlier. [66]
Fellers and Flexible represented the United States at the 2012 London Olympic Games, where they finished eighth individually. [8] Fellers at age 52 and 16-year-old Flexible were the oldest pair in the show jumping finals at the World Cup finals in the Netherlands. [12] Flexible was retired in 2017, and he died of natural causes in 2021. [13]
Three-time Olympic equestrian gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin was suspended from all competition for one year on Thursday following a horse-whipping scandal that saw her withdraw from the Paris ...
The United States Equestrian Team (USET) refers to the American national teams in Olympic and non-Olympic disciplines of horse sport. US Equestrian, the governing body of horse sport in the United States, selects, trains and funds the teams. The Olympic discipline teams are: the Land Rover US Eventing Team, the Dutta Corp. US Dressage Team and ...
Canada's show-jumping team remain disqualified from the Tokyo Olympics despite the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday clearing a rider of intentionally doping. CAS, which in January ...
Karl Cook, ex-husband of actress Kaley Cuoco, won silver as a member of Team USA’s equestrian jumping team on Friday, August 2. Cook, 33, was an alternate on the equestrian team but was called ...