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Why sumo wrestlers are like horses

Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 20:07

As Carola Brighenti speeds towards Tokyo 2020, she is still managing to fit in some cultural and sporting pursuits in Japan including men in G-strings ....

True grit and why failure is good

Monday, February 10, 2020 - 08:36

"Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint” At some point during 2020 you will probably need to watch this video

2020 FEI Eventing Summit

Sunday, February 2, 2020 - 16:20

"What we don’t want to do is to scare people into covering up horse injuries for fear of being penalised" PhD researcher Jess Johnson attended last week's FEI Eventing Summit

The fire fighting eventer

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 18:11

UK-based Australian eventing rider Ben Leathers is also a fully trained fire fighter and he is heading back to Australia to help out

Tokyo from A to Z (not quite)

Saturday, January 11, 2020 - 10:33

The 'must know' things before you visit Tokyo including loo music, dogs in strollers, eating with scissors and the riches of fruit. Carola Brighenti enlightens us in her latest blog ....

The Bushfire blog

Friday, January 10, 2020 - 13:14

When we’re not in the UK, Paul and I are based just outside of Melbourne in Australia where I am writing this. So, it’s probably not surprising that this blog is all about bushfires

Hi everyone

Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 17:11

I’m Carola, I’m Italian, I’m 29 years old and I work in Tokyo as the Eventing Coordinator for the 2020 Olympic Games ......

I'm nearly a year into my PhD ...

Saturday, December 14, 2019 - 10:47

"If we can highlight the predictors for a faulty jump, we can teach riders and coaches to identify those predictors and then work to eliminate them through training" Jess Johnson takes a look back on her first year of gathering and analysing cross country video data
 

A big end to 2019

Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 17:40

Nothing like a bit of pressure at the end of the year to bring out the best and the focus is now on Tokyo 2020 for Tinney Eventing …..

Spring Eventing and Robert

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - 08:55

Eventing competition re-starts with the Sydney Spring Classic and Canberra CCI and could you help the Tinneys find a wonderful home for Robert?

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