Horse trotting to 'The Great Escape' wins Gold Medal

Love horses and racing but it is an absolute joke. As close toa  sport as making apple tart contest

totally agree. upper class twits pretending to be circus performers. Sport? you have to be fukking kidding me.

I have to say.. when i saw that for the first time, i could'nt believe THAT was a competition

completely incongruous

remember the 'inclusivity' in the opening ceremony?

feck me, two separate teams that won medals included members of their Royal families (zara and the grandson of the king of saudi arabia)

total bollox

I loved it. More of this and less football, tennis etc please.

deffo less tennis and football please

The quintessential Olympic sport.

No one for love nor money has a clue what's going on. A bunch of horsey types from a world more closed than the Magic Circle get a bunch of Lippizaners to do back flips, then suddenly the crowd (and country) goes fkin bananas as we've won another Gold medal.

Never mind the quality, just savour the quantity!

Then 30 minutes later a black lass from Inner City Leeds smashes a Chinese to pulp and we win another one, a juztaposition that has me curiously teary-eyed

Have to agree, it was amazing.  Thought the dressage was staggeringly beautiful and artistic.  The two medal winners have just been explaining their experience in typically articulate fashion on the Beeb.

Thought the infectiously cheerful pair of Nicola Adams and Jade Jones were both brilliant when thrashing strongly fancied opposition.  Talk about walking a million miles for one of their smiles.

With Bolt heading an amazing Jamaican 1-2-3, just another fantastic day in my book!

To think Ian McCulloch probably thought he was being wacky when he wrote "Bring on the Dancing Horses" 

Thought the dressage was staggeringly beautiful and artistic.  The two medal winners have just been explaining their experience in typically articulate fashion on the Beeb.


This gives me hope that girl-on-girl nudey prod games might yet be incorporated into the Olympic programme.

It's a thought!

Judges scoring for artistic interpretation?

Or electrodes on the rasberry ripples to see who climaxes first?

Anyone have any idea how the scoring worked?

I mean, 83.499% WTF!

Beating the Germans with a horse dancing to The Great Escape theme almost as good as it gets. They need to start working on the routine for 2016 using The Dambusters theme now.

They had the French girl Dujardin (must commend her on her competence of the English language) in studio earlier suggesting anyone on her horse Almagro probably would have won.  Surely it's time to relegate this event to the Horsey Olympics whenever that is.  That said for the first time in history I watched Dressage for more than 2 seconds and it was ever so slightly more bearable than the most ridiculous event in the Olympics, the 50km 'race' walk

I'd like to see the horses dancing without the jockeys !!

They had the French girl Dujardin (must commend her on her competence of the English language) in studio earlier suggesting anyone on her horse Almagro probably would have won.  Surely it's time to relegate this event to the Horsey Olympics whenever that is.

Yeah, anyone could have won on that horse.  She probably hasn't even bothered training it or practising for years before.  For the last 100 years, the 'Horsey Olympics' has been held every fourth summer.  It's called the Olympics.

Dujardin was born in Enfield.  Think that's somewhere near Toulouse if memory serves.

Here's my favourite song about Toulouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPhwggDy7qo

Charlotte Dujardin went to a comprehensive too, so she can't have been *that* posh..

Enfield sounds like a Paris suburb to me

Oui

Just north of Cockfosters-sur-Mer

Enfield played a part (indeed my favourite part) of the Sir Alan Stanford cricket scandal story. Who would have thought that a multi-billion quid pretendy business would have had its global accountancy HQ in some rooms above a chippy in that fair town?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/4691746/Sir-A...

I'm a dressage convert I loved it

I'm a convert to these posh girls names which also manage to include a foreign-language description of a part of the home environment.

Roll on Rio 2016 when it is to be hoped that Harriet de l'Outsidebog will bring home the gold....

I've heard the new kid on the block in Dressage is the Norweigian heiress, now operating out of Peckham, Ilke Popup-Tostir.

Although there is disappointing news from the Dutch Number 1, Nortie Steppe.

The American, Dado Rail, is one to keep an eye on.

Terrier - in other news,  just had my first look at Sky News coverage of the missing girl Tia. I swear to God who should turn up but Dandy John O'C.

alun2005 10 Aug 12 15:32   

I'm a convert to these posh girls names which also manage to include a foreign-language description of a part of the home environment.

Roll on Rio 2016 when it is to be hoped that Harriet de l'Outsidebog will bring home the gold....


Brilliant, Alun!

alun - surely even HE can solve this one !

Have you clocked that the Holy Trinity are on the same thread at the same time ? Has this ever happened before ? 1.01 gubbed etc etc

Indeed, truly amazing that our 3 worlds are in sync  !!

Dandy John has I fear finally lost the plot. He appeared to be recommending polygraph tests for all as a first step.

Aug 10, 2012 -- 12:03PM, Degs wrote:

Beating the Germans with a horse dancing to The Great Escape theme almost as good as it gets. They need to start working on the routine for 2016 using The Dambusters theme now.

The Dambusters theme was in there.

I was unable to watch this on Thursday.

I've only just got round to finding a replay.I can see what all the fuss has been about over Charlotte and Valegro. It was a stunning performance. I watched the others too, I loved the Lion King routine.


If you enjoyed all that, Burton-Brewers, you might like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQgTiqhPbw

Sadly, Blue Hors Matine had to be put down a couple of years ago, aged 13. She broke a leg when out in the field.