Dressage - WTF!!!??

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Some tidy up Market clacker on show,that Dutch piece that's just been on is worth a wipe.

 

[misterspatch]

we won!

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

I'm sure I just saw a sweaty snatch on that Charlotte lady garden!

 

[kevo]

We are Olympic champions in teaching horses how to dance. Amazing!

 

[Simster]

A tweet from the BBC website:

can't believe I'm watching this!! These horses are amazing!!! Fantastic entertainment !!!

No, I can't either. You're a man FFS.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

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

I think they should bring back poodle trimming!

 

[Gazwag]

Oh come on she made the horse dance to the great escape we couldn't quite make the ball go in the net when we tried it first so for that she deserves the GOLD

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

It must take years of training, an excellent bond with the horse and I'll happily take the golds for the total, thanks very much team, but Christ it's dull.

I've been watching the BMX too. Anybody who doubted that sport's place in the Games should watch these races. Bloody hell.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Gold and Bronze for GB. Excellent sport.

 

[junior]

Have any of you ARSEHOLES slagging this off ever tried it? I'd guess not.

Why don't you try something before you knock it.

You do realise that if a horse doesnt want to do something it just flicks it's back legs about a foot off the floor and deposits the rider on the floor. Didn't see much of that in the 'Horse Dancing' today as you so ignorantly put it.

 

[junior]

Gold and Bronze for GB. Excellent sport.

This.

It's a shame such ignorance exists towards some sports, especially from people who know nothing about it or have never tried it.

 

[Simster]

Gold and Bronze for GB. Excellent sport.

It's a splendid sport when it's just adding to our already impressive medal haul.

However, can you imagine how cringeworthy and embarrassing it would be if our ONLY gold medal was in the horses? At least in 1996, our only gold was in the rowing, which is a PROPER sport, requiring exertion.

 

[kevo]

The medals in the dressage have brought our tally up to 50 in total - tremendous stuff!

 

[Hillian1]

Have any of you ARSEHOLES slagging this off ever tried it? I'd guess not.

Why don't you try something before you knock it.

You do realise that if a horse doesnt want to do something it just flicks it's back legs about a foot off the floor and deposits the rider on the floor. Didn't see much of that in the 'Horse Dancing' today as you so ignorantly put it.

No, but it's still shit.

 

[Dave the OAP]

man up you miseries.

bloody brilliant effort

some lovely fillies on display....and soem decent horses too

 

[Medwayseagull]

Now the British woman has won I must say I have a fundamental problem with any "sport" which requires subjective scoring to find a winner and that includes diving, gymnastics, boxing, ice skating etc. I have no doubt they many require skill but to determine an olympic champion this way seems to me to be too open to abuse and favouritism.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

The Ancient Greeks may well have had dancing horses, but they almost certainly didn't have BMX bikes.

 

[kevo]

There's no doubt it requires a hell of a lot of skill and technique to teach horses how to do that, but I kind of feel the same way about it as I do about, say, synchronised swimming...

Showjumping is much more of a proper 'sport'.

 

[Hillian1]

The Ancient Greeks may well have had dancing horses, but they almost certainly didn't have BMX bikes.

They didn't have shotguns either if I remember my history correctly.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Have any of you ARSEHOLES slagging this off ever tried it? I'd guess not.

Why don't you try something before you knock it.

You do realise that if a horse doesnt want to do something it just flicks it's back legs about a foot off the floor and deposits the rider on the floor. Didn't see much of that in the 'Horse Dancing' today as you so ignorantly put it.

Don't be a prick. Do one is denying it is incredibly challenging and requires immense training and skill, but then so does ballet but its still not considered a sport.