Throughout the Olympics, Horse Nation will be capping off each day with a pint-sized synopsis of the most recent Olympic equestrian sporting festivities. Here’s your Happy Hour report for Saturday, July 28. (more…)
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EN Today: Olympic Live Blog & more!
Why watch the Olympics alone when you can watch it in the virtual company of 250 eventing freaks? Once again, Eventing Nation is bringing you this interactive opportunity. (more…)
Video du Jour: Is it cross-country day yet?
To get us pumped up, Buzzterbrown put together this video montage of London Olympians from recent eventing competitions in the United States. (more…)
Olympic Equestrian Cliffnotes: A handy reference guide
From broadcast scheduling to media coverage to competitor profiles, John’s gathered all the info you need into one convenient location. (more…)
EN Today: Your social media menu for the Olympics
Tori Rodriguez over at Eventing Nation has compiled a fantastic list of Twitter and Facebook accounts to follow during the Games. (more…)
Pak Passport: Your guide to attending the Olympics vicariously through SmartPak
Lock up your sons and horses, London: Sarah Paull and Colby Balazs are coming to town. Here’s how to keep up with their big Olympic adventure. (more…)
Olympic Fail: Zara drops the Olympic torch
Here’s a great idea: Let’s take an uptight event horse and surround it with screaming people and then wave a flaming torch around in its face! Fail. (more…)
NickerDoodles: Steve & Fred’s excellent Olympic adventure
Steve and Fred are two horseflies who hitch a ride to London on their favorite horse. Melanie Eberhardt will be keeping us posted on their antics throughout the Olympic Games. (more…)
Talk About a Sore Bum: Woman rides 10,000 miles from Beijing to London
It took her four years of riding 25 miles a day, using seven different horse, but she made it into town just in time for the 2012 Olympic Games. (more…)
EN Today: Mark Todd – ‘I’m an athlete!’
According to New Zealand event rider Mark Todd, several “open mouth, insert foot” moments have occurred in the Olympic Village at his expense. (more…)
Olympic Links: The latest news from London
Click-click-click your way to becoming a more informed Olympic equestrian spectator with these dressage, show jumping and eventing links from Liz Fletcher. (more…)
EN Today: Will Coleman! Shirtless!
Seriously, anything featuring that boy missing an article of clothing gets an automatic re-post here at Horse Nation. If anyone can make a farmer’s tan look sexy… (more…)
Olympics 101: Show jumping
Between now and the Olympics, Liz Fletcher is going to be filling us in on everything we need to know to be an informed spectator. Yesterday, she gave us the ins-and-outs of Olympic dressage; today, we get the scoop on show jumping. (more…)
EN Today: Boyd Martin listed as 11th sexiest athlete
Fox Sports has released its list of the 99 sexiest London Olympic athletes, and you-know-who made the list. Take it away, John. (more…)
EN Today: Olympic live stream
If, like me, you’re the sort of person who holes up in their living room amidst a growing pile of pizza boxes during the entire duration of the Olympics, you’ll appreciate NBC’s “All 32 Sports, All 302 Events” live stream offer. (more…)
Olympics 101: Dressage
Between now and the Olympics, Liz Fletcher is going to be filling us in on everything we need to know to be an informed spectator. She kicks off her series today with a debriefing on dressage–the scoring, the schedule and the U.S. stats. (more…)
Olympic Dressage at 71
By now we’ve all heard that Hiroshi Hoketsu, 71-year-old Japanese dressage rider, will be the oldest to compete in the London Games. But did you know he also show jumped in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics? (more…)
“Medals for the Rest of Us”
Not destined for Olympic glory this year? You can still win medals! Whether it’s conquering a gargantuan muck heap or backing a six-horse rig through a driveway barely Volkswagen-sized, horse lovers everywhere can display feats of greatness in this contest. (more…)
EN Today: Watching the Olympics, an early guide
Hopefully, you’ve already made arrangements to take the last week of July off work to watch the Olympics. Abby Gibbon’s got your equestrian broadcast schedule here. (more…)
Totilas to Miss Olympics
Eurodressage reports that Totilas, current world record holder in Grand Prix Freestyle dressage, will miss the London Games. His rider, Matthias Rath, 27, is suffering from mononucleosis and not expected to recover in time. (more…)
EN: John’s thoughts on the team
You can always count on John’s voice of reason. I imagine him standing up in his grade school cafeteria in the middle of a food fight, saying,”Hey guys, let’s talk this thing out.” (In my fantasy, that’s when he gets pelted in the face with airborne tater tots.) (more…)
…And, the team coaches in Katy Perry’s ‘California Gurls’
Starring George Morris as Katy Perry, of course. From L to R: George Morris (jumping), Anne Gribbons (dressage), Capt. Mark Phillips (eventing) and Missy Ransehousen (para). (more…)
JibJab!: The USA Olympic Eventing Team
It’s going to be a long summer, folks, and we won’t rest until we’ve JibJabbed every last possible equestrian squadron. Let’s start with the US Event Team, announced yesterday. (more…)