Carola Brighenti

"Seeing horses again after more than nine months was quite exciting" Competition has started at Tokyo 2020 Equestrian Park and Eventing Co-ordinator Carola Brighenti couldn't resist borrowing a horse ....

Tokyo 2020 Equestrian Competition Managers may not be able to get into Japan just yet but Eventing Co-ordinator Carola Brighenti is taking advantage of being a tourist there in the quiet time

Celebrating the 1 Year To Go milestone instead of having the Opening Ceremony, Carola Brighenti found herself on a beach in Japan

If the Olympics were happening this year, we would be 18 days away from the Opening Ceremony. Instead, we have still 382 days to go .....

I was prepared to spend my 30^th birthday in Tokyo alone, but the global pandemic was definitely not in the plan!

"We cook and eat, we work, we cook and eat, we work, we work out, we cook and eat, we drink G&T, we go to bed" Carola Brighenti's lockdown life in Tokyo is not fun but the Skype meetings are providing humour of sorts ....

The postponement  of the Olympic and Paralympic Games means 18 more months in Tokyo for Eventing Coordinator (and dumpling chef) Carola Brighenti ...............

Covid-19 has been part of everyone’s life for a while now in Japan but the Tokyo 2020 eventing team are carrying on (and bringing toilet paper with them); Carola Brighenti updates us from Tokyo ....

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 ....

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 ....