Modern pentathlon to drop horse back riding

"horse back riding" - Huh?

Is there some other part of the horse you ride?

Is rojo using wejo's username?

Don't worry, Bruce Springsteen and Mike Bloomberg will passionately argue that every child should have access to the equestrian boarding school of her choice.

The IOC has forced this decision as they have forced decisions in boxing and weightlifting and other sports.

T and F must be aware that they may not be immune from forced changes to their programme or disciplines.

Huh, what the... wrote:

"horse back riding" - Huh?

Is there some other part of the horse you ride?

Is rojo using wejo's username?

Heh, nice.

wejo wrote:

Is this like the triathlon dropping one of its disciplines?

Yes. Another example of cancel culture. What's next I wonder?

lefty lunatics taking over the asylum wrote:

wejo wrote:

Is this like the triathlon dropping one of its disciplines?

Yes. Another example of cancel culture. What's next I wonder?

If triathlon drops two disciplines they might invent the Marathon.

This may have to do with what happened at the summer Olympics where the leader's horse was uncooperative. The horses are given at random in the competition and it sounds pretty much up to luck if your horse is good or bad. Seems like a good improvement. Should replace it with cycling or some more modern event

I don't know why modern pentathlon doesn't get more play, especially in the US. It's an event that combines shooting and cross country running. It's cool as hell, and the athletes are versatile.

No need to remove it, just replace it them with hobbyhorses.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/hobbyhorse-sport-takes-off-in-scandinavia-finland/U2KOX7BNSOISCAQENAFWXUQVSI/?c_id=6&objectid=11830704

Huh, what the... wrote:

"horse back riding" - Huh?

Is there some other part of the horse you ride?

Is rojo using wejo's username?

Dear, I quite agree with this post, but you must understand that no one who *needs* to understand it...shall.

[For those not among the cognoscenti: Weldon should have said "horseback" and not "horse back."]

The horses being assigned at random is a weird part of the event. The leader and favorite to win the competition this summer was taken completely out because her horse refused to cooperate. Then her coach decided the correct action was to punch the horse.

It would kind of be like having everyone line up at the start for the 5k, but then randomly give out shoes. Chelimo gets clown shoes, Ahmed gets trainers a half size too small, etc. Then Chelimo's coach, being mad, goes and punches the official who handed them out.

Replacing the equestrian part with an event that is determined by the skill of the competitor alone makes sense to me.

Q1 wrote:

The horses being assigned at random is a weird part of the event. The leader and favorite to win the competition this summer was taken completely out because her horse refused to cooperate. Then her coach decided the correct action was to punch the horse..

I hope this isn't all the results of the "punch." Have you seen it? It woud be like if I flicked my son's wrist and was called a child abuser.

They’re replacing the equestrian with cycling, so now it’s a triathlon with weapons.

wejo wrote:

Is this like the triathlon dropping one of its disciplines?

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1116039/uipm-congress-2021

Maybe for you elitist Ivy League types this is an issue, but for us runners ON A RUNNING WEBSITE, this is not an issue!!!

And yet repeatedly whipping a horse is acceptable in horse racing. Huge double standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K83iqCzUZ0&t=128s

Q1 wrote:

The horses being assigned at random is a weird part of the event. The leader and favorite to win the competition this summer was taken completely out because her horse refused to cooperate. Then her coach decided the correct action was to punch the horse.

It would kind of be like having everyone line up at the start for the 5k, but then randomly give out shoes. Chelimo gets clown shoes, Ahmed gets trainers a half size too small, etc. Then Chelimo's coach, being mad, goes and punches the official who handed them out.

Replacing the equestrian part with an event that is determined by the skill of the competitor alone makes sense to me.

Swapping horses is common in the sport at certain levels. It's a skill - a test of the rider's ability. If you're going to compete in NCAA equestrian, you do it on a horse you draw randomly that day. Trying to win an equitation final? You'll likely need to swap horses (and sometimes you don't get to warm-up - you just go in the ring and figure out stuff as you go).

What happened at the Olympics in Pentathlon with the German woman was NOT a case of a wonderful athlete getting an unlucky draw. It was a case of someone who was lousy at one discipline of her sport losing a medal because she sucked. It was a test of her skill, and she failed.

There are literally hundreds of kids in the US that could have done a better job riding that horse than she or many of the other Olympic pentathletes did that day (there are some pentathletes who are very good riders, but they do not appear to be the norm).

Who will punch the horses then?

side note, Jack Daniels (coach/scientist/author, not whiskey maker) won silver and bronze for the US in the Team Modern Pentathlon in 1956/60. As I recall from his autobiography, "Luck of the Draw" the good horse/bad horse issue both helped and hurt him. Maybe he made the team because he was assigned a good horse but lost an individual medal because he had a lousy horse or something?

I really enjoyed the book as both a runner and a scientist. Modern pentathlon was not a big part of the book.

Does anybody know how Jack's health is? He's no spring chicken, born in 1933.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/luck-of-the-draw-b-j-daniels/1129349316

[quote]Q1 wrote:

"The horses being assigned at random is a weird part of the event. "

Nothing at all weird about the random assignment of the mount unless you know nothing of the sport and the required ability of a military officer to be able to adapt to uncertain circumstances in the field. The modern pentathlon is based on essential military skills, or at least what used to be essential military skills, particularly those skills needed to evade or escape capture. Choice of horse to do so was rarely an option.

Perhaps the horse could be replace with random assignment of a motorcycle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaFBFmJG-LI