The order of go for the Grand Prix at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris has been published. Sixty riders will compete for high scores to qualify for the Grand Prix Special team competition as well as the individual final Kur to Music.
The Grand Prix will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday 30 - 31 July 2024. Thirty riders go on the first day, another 30 on the second day. Not an easy, straight forward random draw, but a highly complicated system of groups/heats based on the FEI World Horse Ranking determines the order of go.
In principle this order of go looks easy but there are additional rules which complicate matters as the final order does not allow more than one rider per nation in each group, and no more than two riders per nation. Eurodressage's statistician David Stickland made a personal predication of the order of go based on his calculations, but in the end the FEI went with a slightly different order according to how they read the rules.
The biggest difference with Stickland's order is that the unranked Glamourdale (as he only competed in one CDI where he got points for the world ranking in the last eight months) was supposed to go first in group one and in the FEi's version he's going on day two.
All said and done, the level of horse and rider-combinations is stellar and the competition will be spectacular no matter in which order they go.
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