The core issue with dressage is that they are putting the medal on the wrong neck. The horse is doing all of the work, they deserve all of the credit. Yes, being a dressage rider is (probably) hard work, but so is being a jokey or a wrestling coach. Also, all animal training facilities should automatically be on animal cruelty watch lists and subject to random inspections.
I thought they removed the part with the horses since the pentathlon incident during the last olympics
I’m not sure it’s possible to remove the horses from the competitive horse dancing event.
I think synchronised horse swimming has been nixed already.
Ah my bad. I assumed it was that case. In pentathlon they get assigned a horse that they don’t know and need to perform more or less with a stranger. There was a case of an athlete whipping that horse like crazy last Olympic because it wouldn’t do what she wanted
This just reminded me that there’s an amusement park near where I grew up where back in like the twenties and '30s and stuff, the idea of entertainment was to force a horse to run up a giant ramp out above a lake, maybe 50 feet up and have it jump into the water as a high diving horse.
Just looking at her puts a stain on her reputation, and the Olympics.
Can we also disqualify the person who made that website have a hovering video that can’t be removed on mobile?
No such issue using Firefox + U-block Origin.
I am using Firefox mobile with U-block Origin.
If you’re on iOS, every browser is basically a reskinned Safari. They all have to use WebKit
I’m on Android though
Got it. Wasn’t sure which is why I put that.
That’s where the real whipping belongs 🤭
Good thing we have a ready replacement in the wings
That’s lucky. https://youtu.be/o-50GjySwew?feature=shared
If only I had the moves
Wtf
I can see why.
Animals shouldn’t be part of any sport. Sports are for spoiled fucks anyway
God I hate people
Art, sports, leisure, entertainment all need to be banned. They distract the worker from his task of serving the people.
vwls r dcdnt!
Srr. M bd.
It’s amazing that people seem to be taking this comment literally
Always hard to tell if they don’t know it’s a joke or they just find the joke unfunny. I’ve had much worse lately.
Animals shouldn’t be part of any sport.
cool
Sports are for spoiled fucks anyway
unhinged
Canned Lemmy, arrives tainted
I don’t agree that sports are for spoiled fucks, but dressage definitely is. The barrier to entry makes golf look egalitarian.
The barrier to entry
to be fair, this barrier mostly comes from the necessity to involve a horse in the routine, so if the olympics starts allowing pantomime horses as a replacement we’re in business
You mean a dude following someone around with a coconut?
I’m not sure what I expected, but this is better.
Or other animals. I don’t see why you can’t bring any animal you want to the animal dance. Yeah sure like maybe an alligator won’t make a very good dancer, but why would somebody bring a partner that has no chance of winning?
I would actually watch dressage if it only had pantomime horses.
Oh no not dressage
i had to look up “dressage.” that it’s dumb and pointless doesn’t matter, but apparently it’s not possible without animal abuse? people are so fucking stupid
Arguably all Olympic sports are dumb and pointless and don’t matter.
I will accept my internet chastisement now.
i mean i agree, i don’t watch or follow a single sport, olympic or not.
but whipping animals for showing off stupid horse tricks just seems dumber and pointlesser to me…i say the same thing about dog shows, but at least i don’t hear about dogs being whipped for it
They’re also learning some fairly advanced engineering. So it’s fair from pointless
