Is making a horse dance really an Olympic Sport?

[tillson]

They call it dressage, but it simply amounts to posh people on horseback making an animal dance for their own titillation.

How ever this cruelty found its way into the Olympics I will never understand. What next, Olympic bull fighting or badger-baiting?

Disgusting.

 

[Yamdude]

Yes.... and not only is it dancing, but its crap dancing. Its more like a funny walk.
Get these horses dancing properly, maybe a salsa, or even better breakdancing. A gurt big orse spinning on its head would be well deserving of a gold medal imo.

As for it being cruel ! Cant say i really care...... i find it hard to have any sympathy for an animal that looks like the hideously faced Sarah Jessica Parker.

 

[Deleted member 4366]

Extrapolating logically, you ask why they don't have flea circuses in the Olympics or those dancing dogs from Britain's Got Talent.

Another question. Why are professional golfers, footballers, tenis players, cyclists, gymnasts, etc allowed to participate, but not professional boxers?

 

[(NoLongerRegistered#15675)]

Who watches it anyhow ?? Everybody I know turns Tele over once goose stepping horses appear...Its crap...

 

[oldtom]

It lasts far too long because it is jam-packed with stupid activities nowadays, euphemistically referred to as sport, that would never attract big crowds or fill stadiums on their own merits.

It was ok in the early days in Greece when it was all about running, throwing, lifting, jumping, wrestling and boxing........Oh!....and a bit of chariot racing. They managed to stretch it out to 4 days back then and I'd guess everybody had had their fill of it by then.

Don't be surprised if cribbage, dominoes, backgammon and tiddlywinks make an appearance before much longer.........maybe even an Olympic X-Factor or Bake-off?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/the_olympic_games/

Tom

 

[paul20v]

It must be a sport it's on telly

Gotta agree though what a load of rubbish
But in saying that I think football is too.

 

[flecc]

Gotta agree though what a load of rubbish
But in saying that I think football is too.

Me too, but for saying so at school I had one of the older much taller kids approach me from behind and smash a housebrick down on my head.

He probably considered himself a sportsman.

Walking back into the school building witn blood gushing down all over my face and shirt did create quite a dramatic effect though!
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[Yamdude]

Me too, but for saying so at school I had one of the older much taller kids approach me from behind and smash a housebrick down on my head.

He probably considered himself a sportsman.

Walking back into the school building witn blood gushing down all over my face and shirt did create quite a dramatic effect though!
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Bit over the top isn't it !
But some of these dressage fans can be violent.

 

[paul20v]

Me too, but for saying so at school I had one of the older much taller kids approach me from behind and smash a housebrick down on my head.

He probably considered himself a sportsman.

Walking back into the school building witn blood gushing down all over my face and shirt did create quite a dramatic effect though!
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Bloody hell
Talk about an over reaction.

 

[Wicky]

 

[flecc]

She rides at twice the height we do, yet still doesn't need a helmet.

She'd be alright on the roads though, no driver would dare get near her riding like that, but I don't suppose the police would be impressed.
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[Steve UKLSRA]

My hero...or more correctly heroine (to keep the grammar police happy)...some great videos of her on YouTube

 

[paul20v]

Now thats talent

 

[flecc]

Bloody hell
Talk about an over reaction.

It was the 1940s, life was somewhat more crude back then, none of today's mollycoddling.
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[Croxden]

When men were men, it all went down hill when the started with Brylcream.

 

[jdallan]

When men were men, it all went down hill when the started with Brylcream.

Ah, Brylcream.....I remember that. I don't use it now but if I did it would just run off my shiny head into my eyes

Jim

 

[Croxden]

Ah, Brylcream.....I remember that. I don't use it now but if I did it would just run off my shiny head into my eyes

Jim

A tanned shiny head in my case.

 

[Yamdude]

When men were men, it all went down hill when the started with Brylcream.

Blokes cant even grow beards these days, without putting some sort of poncy stuff on it.
Beard oil..... WTF ?

 

[falmouthtony]

They call it dressage, but it simply amounts to posh people on horseback making an animal dance for their own titillation.

How ever this cruelty found its way into the Olympics I will never understand. What next, Olympic bull fighting or badger-baiting?

Disgusting.

If dressage is 'cruel and disgusting', how do you classify the Grand National? Personally I would save the extreme language for that.

 

[tillson]

If dressage is 'cruel and disgusting', how do you classify the Grand National? Personally I would save the extreme language for that.

I believe that dressage is a cruel and disgusting pass-time as is horse gambling (Grand National included).

What is clever about making a horse dance for food? If I went to Africa and brought a starving man back home and then made him dance for sausages, people would call me an ass-hole. But if Lady Cunty Twattingham-Smythe makes a horse dance for food, we hang a medal around her neck.