Pippa Cuckson

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Name: Pippa Cuckson
Date registered: August 30, 2011
URL: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport

Latest posts

  1. Unlike Gatcombe Park, the Olympic equestrian competition will survive the rain — July 11, 2012
  2. London 2012 Olympics: New Zealand could be the dark horses of eventing — July 2, 2012
  3. London 2012 Olympics: Thomas’s resignation hightlights Locog’s sloppy consideration of equestrian tradition — June 25, 2012
  4. London 2012 Olympics: Tina Fletcher shines in Cannes as Hickstead and Rotterdam loom large — June 18, 2012
  5. London 2012 Olympics: Zara Phillips selection based on sound sporting reasons — June 12, 2012

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Jul
11

Unlike Gatcombe Park, the Olympic equestrian competition will survive the rain

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Given all the criticism about limited space, expense, absence of legacy, damage and lock-out of local users, Greenwich Park’s most redeeming feature could also be its most unexpected: the ability to run an Olympic cross-country when other major venue…

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Jul
02

London 2012 Olympics: New Zealand could be the dark horses of eventing

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Spectators need their heads on a swivel to get the very best out of the international horse trials at Barbury. The cross-country course is on open hills above Marlborough and the most panoramic in Europe. On top of that, the competition sends out runne…

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Jun
25

London 2012 Olympics: Thomas’s resignation hightlights Locog’s sloppy consideration of equestrian tradition

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It’s no surprise that news of Hugh Thomas’s resignation as an official at Greenwich Park, in protest at the public lock-out at horse inspections, went viral. Equestrianism has made compromises  to remain in the Olympic movement, but this seemingly…

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Jun
18

London 2012 Olympics: Tina Fletcher shines in Cannes as Hickstead and Rotterdam loom large

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Tina Fletcher’s chances of selection for the British show jumping team got a further boost in the Global Champions Tour meeting in Cannes. To the casual observer, her Grand Prix ninth placing is not especially impressive, but Fletcher dropped just fo…

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Jun
12

London 2012 Olympics: Zara Phillips selection based on sound sporting reasons

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Zara Phillips’ Olympic selection elevated eventing to the front pages but this exposure is double-edged.  Some say the decision to pick Zara is a piece of star-struck tokenism, or that she got the sympathy vote for missing out before. Other riders

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Jun
04

London 2012 Olympics: Bramham last chance as selectors make their choice

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Despite its disrupted schedule, next week eventing will become the first equestrian discipline to announce its team for London 2012.  Selectors ripped up their protocols after the costly wet-weather cancellations of Badminton and Chatsworth, and the f…

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May
20

London 2012 Olympics: Skelton finally set for a podium place

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Nick Skelton has won 18 world and European championship medals in his 35-year senior career but the Olympic podium has somehow evaded him.  Finally his time has come:  selection for London 2012 is a given, leaving Skelton merely with the enviable pro…

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May
02

London 2012 Olympics: Saudi deal-breaker forces brave new world for the Nations Cup

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Well, no-one saw this coming. Hickstead may have to change its dates and bounce the King George V Gold Cup – Britain’s principal show jumping Grand Prix – to another of its annual events to remain in the scrap-and-start-again Nations Cup series a…

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Apr
30

London 2012 Olympics: head-start for William Fox-Pitt and Charlotte Dujardin in the selection stakes

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British riders won two of the spring season’s most significant contests last weekend, with William Fox-Pitt victorious at the Rolex Kentucky – the USA’s Badminton equivalent three-day event – for the second time in three years, and Charlott…

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Apr
26

London 2012 Olympics: Locog produces 70-page booklet on how to negotiate Greenwich Park on cross-country day

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By now the 50,000 with tickets for Olympic cross-country day probably know how extremely lucky and envied they are, though a few may yet have a rude awakening, judging by queries on horsey forums. It’s taking a while to register that Greenwich is not…

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