• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I thought they removed the part with the horses since the pentathlon incident during the last olympics

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        4 months ago

        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

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          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.