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Equestrian sports are sports that use horses as a main part of the sport. This usually takes the form of the rider being on the horse's back, ...
Many competitions are broadcast live by the BBC, and all are streamed. The show is held over six days during the week preceding Christmas, and typically involves over 400 horses and ponies. Previously held at Olympia, London, it has been hosted by ExCeL London since 2021. [1] The show is run by the HPower Group, with Simon Brooks-Ward as ...
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
Opened in 1960, Hickstead was the first permanent showground for equestrian sport in the country. The first Hickstead Derby was held in 1961. Hickstead is renowned as the home of British showjumping, but its major fixtures also feature other disciplines such as showing, carriage driving, scurry driving, side-saddle and arena eventing.
The equestrian events at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics included dressage, eventing, and show jumping. All three disciplines had both individual and team competitions. All three disciplines had both individual and team competitions.
In the United States, a similar need for national rules for jumping and other equestrian activities led to the formation of the American Horse Shows Association in 1917, which now is known as the United States Equestrian Federation. An early form of show jumping first was incorporated into the Olympic Games in 1900. Show jumping in its current ...
Olympic champion equestrian Charlotte Dujardin has been banned from the sport for one year, months after she withdrew from the Paris Olympics after a video surfaced that showed her whipping one of ...
The 200 quota places for equestrian were divided between the three disciplines (75 for jumping, 65 for eventing, and 60 for dressage). Teams in each discipline consisted of three horse and rider pairs; any NOC that qualified a team (20 teams for jumping, 15 each for eventing and dressage) also received 3 entries in the individual competition for that discipline.