Dressage - WTF!!!??

[Bold Seagull]

Beautiful majestic beasts made to dance to Hakuna Matata from the Lion Kion. What a crock of shit this is, posh people making horses dance, f***ing makes my blood boil when I think of other sports (I.e. squash) that don't get in.

If the Illumanti are going to blow something up, they can start with the dressage arena!!

 

[geodavies]

Bit of a socialist rant there.....i think they should receive extra funding......

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

completly agree! get the BMX on, (p.s im copying this for my FB!)

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i honestly don't understand how it's a sport

 

[StillHateBellotti]

Its is a bit f***ing odd but still amazes me how they get a beast to do that stuff!

 

[Simster]

I just can't take the horsey sports seriously. The posh people seem to be trying sooo hard to convince us mere ordinaries that these horsey sports are the pinnacle of sporting athletic prowess.

No they're not. They're shit. That's why a 54 year old man has a medal in it, and it's taken him two decades of trying at Olympic games to get one.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

Wow! What a performance that was from Britain!

 

[leigull]

It obviously takes skill, but I prefer my olympic events to be slightly more 'physically exerting' i.e. swim/run/ride/row/sail fastest, jump highest/furthest etc etc

 

[Superseagull]

who wins the medals? The horse or the rider? seems to me the horse does most of the work!

 

[Simster]

Wow! What a performance that was from Britain!

Oh, are we doing well?

Go on GINNY. Superb stuff! Get in! Cracking horse control!

 

[Bold Seagull]

I just can't take the horsey sports seriously. The posh people seem to be trying sooo hard to convince us mere ordinaries that these horsey sports are the pinnacle of sporting athletic prowess.

No they're not. They're shit. That's why a 54 year old man has a medal in it, and it's taken him two decades of trying at Olympic games to get one.

Jumping over stuff and getting round a course in the shortest time I actually get, making animals dance for our amusement strikes me as a but medeaval and certainly not a sport.

Anyway I've gone to taekwondo now and our girl is winning, happy again!

 

[Chicken Run]

who wins the medals? The horse or the rider? seems to me the horse does most of the work!

I'm sure u won't agree however I assume the car wins the grand prix title not the driver?

 

[Icy Gull]

I don't really get it but neither do I get people on what look like kid's bikes or synchronised swimming being Olympic events either

 

[Hillian1]

I do like a bit of the old cross country stuff, especially when the horse looks at the jump and say "f*** off mate" and dumps the rider usually in the water.

All the rest is a load of old pony.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I'm sure u won't agree however I assume the car wins the grand prix title not the driver?

What motorsport is in the Olympics then clever dick?

 

[Albumen]

I'd rather they tried to ride wild bears. Then it would be worth a medal.
And if this is an event why doesn't crufts get its own Olympic section?

 

[Butch Willykins]

a horse dancing to "the great escape"..... WTF

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

And if this is an event why doesn't crufts get its own Olympic section?

It does, womens weightlifting.

 

[Easy 10]

Dressage belongs in a circus. It's got as much to do with sport as lion taming.

 

[Gritt23]

Horse dancing. Hmmm, get one to do a moonwalk like that Manekin Bird on QI, and then I'm watching.