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Rio 2016 Olympic Games
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are less than a year away. The Games run from 5-21 August next year. The equestrian competitions will include team and individual competitions in dressage, showjumping and eventing as well as modern pentathlon. The Paralympics follow in September (7-18) with para dressage being the sole equestrian discipline.
Rio 2016 Olympic Games preparations
The equestrian test event in August 2015 went off without a hitch with British observers giving the venue at Deodoro Park the thumbs up. However this followed criticism of the Brazilian government by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) chief Dr Bernard Vallat for not being “more transparent” about an outbreak of glanders, a deadly bacterial infection.
The Olympic venue is a military base, which normally stables army horses. These horses vacated the site in February 2015 so that the six-month pre-Olympic test event quarantine could begin. One of these horses, posted 600km away in Vitoria, was diagnosed with glanders in April 2015. This prompted authorities to undertake mass testing and in June, a further horse previously at Deodoro tested positive, with another “inconclusive”. OIE has helped Rio with biosecurity arrangements and says there is no risk to visiting horses or to the equestrian events taking place as planned at Deodoro Park.
There were further concerns about whether the equestrian events might need to be moved when it became apparent in October 2015 that the equine health certificate needed by Brazil to allow the movement of horses into and out of the country for the Olympics hadn’t been finalised.
However, the FEI remains “confident” that the horses would be able to travel to Rio for the 2016 Olympic Games as planned. FEI president Ingmar De Vos said he expected the certificate to be issued “very soon”.
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Alice Collins' Rio blog: the incredibly weird Olympic team announcement
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Yogi Breisner to step down as BEF's eventing manager
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Owner sued for selling his horse before Rio Olympics *H&H VIP*
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BEF addresses concerns over Rio Olympics logistics *H&H VIP*
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Pippa Roome’s eventing blog: Badminton entries and the lowdown on Olympic selection dates
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Carl Hester: Mind-boggling and eye-popping *H&H VIP*
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