[PDF] 'I Can't Watch Anymore': The Case for Dropping Equestrian from the Olympic Games Ipad

[PDF] 'I Can't Watch Anymore': The Case for Dropping
Equestrian from the Olympic Games Ipad

[PDF] 'I Can't Watch Anymore': The Case for Dropping Equestrian from the
Olympic Games Ipad
Description :
'Catalogues what happens to sport horses in plain sight should be compulsory
reading for all of us who care about horses.' Professor Paul McGreevy BVSc,
PhD, FRCVS author, Equine BehaviourPassionate, yet rigorous and
meticulously researched, this eye opening book holds equestrian sport up to
Olympic standards and finds it sadly wanting.Doping agents that used to cost
Olympic medals, rebranded as benign 'medication'. Shell federations with no
riders or horses, propped up to make the sport seem 'global'. Judging that
favours spectacle over the rules. From the myth of gender equality, to the
failure to prevent rollkur, to the easing of the 'blood rule' to appease riders, to
horses competing with the nerves in their legs cut to numb the pain of injuries:
this is a tale of entitlement, privilege, and spineless regulation, always at the
expense of the horse. 'I Can't Watch Anymore' chronicles and explains how
the bureaucrats who run the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) have
stripped and sold for parts one of the oldest Olympic sports in the world until
finally, there is nothing left to preserve.This compelling book challenges the
reader to confront the reality of high level equestrian competition today and
say, along with so many others, 'I can't watch anymore'.