MIKE DUNNE: Four into three won’t go in new Olympic format
The eventing nations cup hosted by Millstreet at the weekend gave us a glimpse — and a somewhat sobering one — of the future of equestrian sport at the Olympics. The Cork venue was staging the latest round of the FEI Eventing Nations Cup series which on this occasion was trialling the new Olympic format of three riders per team.
In the traditional four-rider format the worst of the four scores is disregarded, but that ‘discard-score’ is history now as far as Olympic competition is concerned. However the real jeopardy in the new Olympic format comes when a rider is eliminated or has to withdraw.
