Olympic Updates

Thehorse.com had a lot of Olympic news in the e-newsletter I got this morning.

They have the results of the Eventing competition, an article on the U.S. Team Cross Country and some Veterinary Updates from Hong Kong.

There is also a link to the award-winning author Jennifer Bryant's blog of behind the scene at the 2008 Equestrian Olympics. This looks like it will be really interesting. She is seeing things the way I would look at them. Jennifer wrote "Olympic Equestrian: A Century of International Horse Sport".

I just checked on the Equestrian portion of the Paralympic Games to be help in Hong Kong September 6 through September 17th. Their website has some interesting information including qualifications and classifications.

More Olympic News

We have a local connection to the Olymipics thru the horse community.
This first piece is from Back Country Horseman of Washington (BCHW) -

During the next couple weeks the Olympics will be the most watched event around the world. We have a local "connection" to the Games......

2008 Olympian Kara Patterson, who will be competing in the Javelin event in Beijing, is the daughter of Mt. St. Helens Chapter BCHW members Bruce & Rona Patterson.

Please join us in congratulating Kara on earning the right to represent the United States, and in wishing her continued success in the upcoming Games!

Gary
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A follow-up from Rona Patterson..........

If anyone is interested in reading my blog at www.myspace.com/ronarancher, I'll be journaling about our trip and about Kara's performance (in case NBC misses it). We'll wave at every camera we see!

Thanks,Rona