AH! Okay, I was trying to figure that out. Dressage for eventing is like the trial before the other stuff, yes?
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Aug 09, 2008 5:27:06 pm PDT #2190 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
amych - Aug 09, 2008 5:29:12 pm PDT #2191 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
No, dressage is one of the three parts of the event -- it's just that they're not specialists in it, and they tend to pay less attention to dressage than the other parts, and so they're *way* less good than the real dressage specialists.
Kat - Aug 09, 2008 5:29:31 pm PDT #2192 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I had fish and chips and part of a cornish pastie. yum.
Kat - Aug 09, 2008 5:30:30 pm PDT #2193 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
hmmm... I know NOTHING about horses. K and I were talking about that today. I so wanted a horse as a kid and now, not so much.
sumi - Aug 09, 2008 5:31:38 pm PDT #2194 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Eventing is in three phases:
dressage, cross-country and show jumping.
Then there is the separate sport of Dressage and the other separate sport of Show Jumping. The sort of performances you see in the specialized areas are at a much higher level then what you see in the phases of eventing.
(When they said, for example, that this was the first time that they had flying changes in dressage - they meant that it was the first time that eventers were doing flying changes. . . clearly the dressage specialists have been expected to do flying changes - even much more difficult ones for years.)
Jesse - Aug 09, 2008 5:33:51 pm PDT #2195 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Men's swimming: I'm so happy for this Korean kid who fell in 4 years ago! When he was FOURTEEN YEARS OLD. Crikey. I wasn't paying attention, so I'm assuming the American wasn't the favorite, which is why even the announcers seemed happy for Park.
Do we need to whitefont results?
sumi - Aug 09, 2008 5:36:23 pm PDT #2196 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
I don't know - are you watching NBC or live stuff?
Is there a place to get live results?
Hil R. - Aug 09, 2008 5:37:24 pm PDT #2197 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
NBC is live right now.
amych - Aug 09, 2008 5:37:59 pm PDT #2198 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The website is updating pretty much live (or within minutes after events, anyway), and results have been all over various news sites way before they do the NBC broadcasts. Jesse is watching NBC.
edit: corrected! I didn't realize that NBC is live at this time of day -- I was thinking of the stuff during the day when it was 3 in the morning there.
Alibelle - Aug 09, 2008 5:39:39 pm PDT #2199 of 10003
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I'm waiting for the Olympics to start by watching HGTV, which is so bad for me. HGTV just fills me with jealousy and hope for the day when I can own my own home. A home with more than one room. One day... But how do other parts of the country have actual nice places to live that are under $200,000? I don't understand. It doesn't get even remotely, mildly appealing around here until your reach the $400,000 range. Which is one of those things that's really depressing when I think about my salary. And then I start having crazy thoughts about how I should move to Tennessee. And that's why HGTV is the bad crack.