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Another consideration about endurance riding as an Olympic sport is the fact 
that it is not spectator friendly.  Too long a competition field, and too 
many locations to cover.  I also don't think any good can come of making it 
more competitive than it is already.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Maryanne Gabbani" <msgabbani@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <susan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] The Olympics


> Maryanne Gabbani wrote:
>
> > The IOC has been lobbying to get rid of equestrian competition in the 
> > Olympics for quite a while, so I suspect that the FEI agenda (they got 
> > some major financial backing from the cash prizes offered by the UAE in 
> > endurance for a while) and the IOC agenda were not in synch.  AHHH, 
> > politics and finance.  Who needs soap operas when the world is out there?
> >
> > Maryanne
> > cynically in Cairo
>
> The new head of the IOC has stated that there are too many sports in the 
> Olympics and they are in the process of cutting sports out - not adding 
> new ones. I believe that both baseball and softball - both with much 
> bigger appeal than any equestrian event have been cut for the 2008 games. 
> I suspect getting a new equestrian sport into the Olympics will be near on 
> to impossible. As long as they leave womens beach volleyball alone that 
> would be good.
>
> Truman
>
>
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