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Well Done Showjumpers , Gold first time in 60 Years. Yeees!!
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Nickelback
Posts: 23,764 Nickelback
Posts: 23,764 Nickelback
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Well done, brilliant achievement.
Well done horses! Extra carrots for you!
That goes for the horses too!
It was a fantastic team effort though. Every one of them contributed. Ben Maher's horse is beautiful too.
:rolleyes: there's nowt posho about Nick Skelton
Well done horses and riders!
You've never heard an interview with any of the Whittakers or Nick Skelton then
Yes, so long as you're lucky enough to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth and fortunes of cash to buy and train the best horses available, age seems to be no barrier to being a gold medal winner.
Hoorah, Pip-Pip, Jolly Good Show!!
Zara Phillips won the World Championships on a horse that was bought for just £1,500.
Aside from that perhaos you'd like to provide the backgrounds to all four of our SJ team - I think you'll find they're more wooden spoon than silver.
Far more inverse snobbery in this country than actual snobbery. Sad but true. Until folks get the chips off their shoulders & realise that success is not 'given' to you but is 'earned' then we will never be great again. OK - rowers/sailors etc. may have had a good start in life but surely watching over the last few days even those with 'boulder shoulder' can see that what they have achieved is by sheer bl..dy hard work/effort.
Just look at the Olympic stadium the other night the diversity in background of the gold medalists. Never say that you have to have a silver spoon in your mouth to win. If a Somali refugee can do it so can anyone.
None of the SJ team are posh but it seems riding is fair game for inverse snobbery while other sports are given the praise they are due.
Sheer bloody hard work and effort, and a lot of the time more money. That's not an opinon, the head of the Olympic team himself has called it "wholly unacceptable".
How little you know, silly stereotyping
Chip, chip. Sorry, poor show.
The owners/sponsors of the horses may have money, but the riders most definitely aren't all born with a silver spoon in their mouth, and they put the graft in to train themselves and their horses to achieve success at this level.
Apologies if link doesn't work but track cycling has been lottery funded to the tune of 26million between 2009 and 2013. Why not criticise that (I'm not) rather than riders who for the most part aside from small time sponsors have to work hard to keep themselves going. Silver spoons indeed.
Our two Olympic gold hopefuls in dressage have just been sold and go to a new home after the Olympics. The money will enable Carl Hester to pay off his mortgage and continue competing at that level for a few more years.
Scott Brash is a builder's son.
Mary King's father was a verger. She worked as a cleaner, a gardener and a butcher's delivery woman to earn enough to keep her horses.
Nick Skelton spent his early career riding other people's horses because he couldn't afford his own. He broke his neck in 2001 and was advised to retire but was determined to carry on to try to win an Olympic medal.
Zara Phillips's first top horse Toytown, on which she won the World and European Championships, cost £1,500. Victoria Pendleton's road bike cost £20,000.
Put the lazy outdated stereotypes aside and enjoy celebrating the fruits of years of hard graft culminating in well-deserved Olympic medals.
(read from the bottom up)
http://www.sabotagetimes.com/football-sport/dressage-day-1-as-it-happened-well-sort-of/