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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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