With less than two weeks to go, we take a look at the venue, how the weather may play a role and a peek at the cross country course in the start of our essential eventing guide for Rio 2016
The FEI Definite Entries are published with Eventing entries covering 24 countries with 13 teams and 65 horse/rider combinations - who can beat the German team in Rio?
It is very tight at the top in the CICO3* Nations Cup at Aachen. Australia leads but, with Rio the next stop for many contenders and only 3.1 penalties between the top four nations, this will be a nail biter of a finish
Karim-Florent Laghouag, Mathieu Lemoine, Astier Nicolas and Thibaut Vallette are the nominated riders for the French eventing team for Rio
Sparky's Reflection may have been a 'lazy racehorse' but he took the win in the Retraining of Racehorses class at Barbury International ridden by Harry Meade