The bad news is that Lisa can no longer vie for an individual medal; the good news is that she can compete tomorrow in the team competition and hopefully repeat the awesome clear round she had today. You can read the full report here.
It became apparent pretty quickly who the threats are in the show jumping. The US of course has a strong squad, led by today’s class winner Beezie Madden and Breitling LS. Those troublesome Brazilians are on the hunt again and sit in second place less than 3 points ahead of us. It is no surprise that Mexico is nipping at our heels in fourth place. As there are three Olympic berths up for grabs in this competition, technically we could come fourth as long as the US is ahead of us and get our Tokyo ticket, as they are already qualified. But that ain’t gonna happen – we’ve got this!
I know that the folks back home are starved for some footage, but there is no livestream (what had been promised is actually located on some sketchy website) so your best bet, fellow Canadians, is www.cbc.ca/sports who do offer footage of various sports all day and hopefully will include equestrian coverage in the mix tomorrow and for Friday’s individual final.