NZ's double gold winner, Mark Todd, back for Beijing
DOUBLE equestrian gold medallist Mark Todd has made a successful return from an eight-year retirement to win selection for New Zealand's Olympic eventing team.The winner of individual gold medals at Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988 was named today in the five-strong team by the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) to compete at this summer's Beijing Games.
Mark Todd, 52, will be attending his sixth Games after coming out of retirement early this year and teaming up with new mount, Gandalf, to qualify for selection in events in New Zealand and France.
"I'm delighted that we've got the nod to go,'' Todd said in a NZOC statement. "It's what we set out to do at the beginning and we're looking forward to being part of
Mark Todd earns right to ride in Beijing Olympics
Former Olympic champion Mark Todd, returning from eight years' retirement, earned the right to represent New Zealand at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday when he placed sixth at a three-day equestrian event in Saumur, France.Todd, riding Gandalf, has now claimed the two qualifying performances required to ride at the Games in August. New Zealand will name its five-strong team next month.
Mark Todd, 52, was 25th after the dressage and improved to 13th after the cross-country stage before jumping a clear round in the showjumping, according to provisional results.
Compatriots Andrew Nicholson and Tim Price finished fourth and fifth respectively in a competition won by Australian Sam Griffiths.
Mark Todd won gold medal
Mark Todd included in Olympic squad
Mark Todd was named in New Zealand's Olympic squad yesterday, thus putting an end to speculation that the world's most celebrated three-day event rider might be omitted from the Games in Sydney because of allegations in a Sunday newspaper.Mark Todd was named in New Zealand's Olympic squad yesterday, thus putting an end to speculation that the world's most celebrated three-day event rider might be omitted from the Games in Sydney because of allegations in a Sunday newspaper.
Last weekend the Sunday Mirror claimed that 44-year-old Todd admitted to using cocaine which, given the strong anti-drug policy of the New Zealand Olympic Committee, could have led to his omission.
However, at a press conference in Wellington yester
Mark Todd and Andrew Nicholson Win at Belton Horse Trials
New Zealand event riders Mark Todd and Andrew Nicholson were both in winning form at the weekend's Belton Park One Day Event. Andrew Nicholson won the advanced class on Avebury, adding just a few cross-country time faults to his slick dressage score (25.9) to finish on 39.9, well ahead of Sarah Stretton and Skip On II with 45.6. They just pipped Caroline Powell and Lenamore, who finished third on 46.0. Nicholson's Mr Cruise Control was also fifth in the class.Mark Todd scored in an intermediate class on the Italian bred Alfiano del Ferro in the seven-year-old son of Cougar's first start at that level.
Sarah Cohen won the three-star CIC Grantham Cup on 53.7, with Australian Paul Tapner's Inonothing second on 56.9. It
Mark Todd Chaps
Stableexpress online shop offering leading brands in equine fashion, buy online and get them delivered to your doorOlympics: Mark Todd would protest over Tibet
Equestrian Mark Todd says he will consider joining any peaceful protest against China's actions in Tibet if he is selected for the Beijing Olympics. The double Olympic gold medallist, who has come out of retirement to try to qualify for Beijing, said it would be better to attend the Games and "voice your opinion" there than boycott them.Demonstrators protesting against Chinese rule in Tibet have been shot during a week of escalating violence, with estimates of the number killed ranging from 12 to more than 80.
"I think you could probably do more while you were there in a peaceful sort of protest," Todd told The Press newspaper.
"I think athletes in general would be obliged to do something like that."
New Zealands double gold winner, Mark Todd, back for Beijing
DOUBLE equestrian gold medallist Mark Todd has made a successful return from an eight-year retirement to win selection for New Zealand's Olympic eventing team. The winner of individual gold medals at Los Angeles in 1984 and Seoul in 1988 was named today in the five-strong team by the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) to compete at this summer's Beijing Games.Mark Todd, 52, will be attending his sixth Games after coming out of retirement early this year and teaming up with new mount, Gandalf, to qualify for selection in events in New Zealand and France.
"I'm delighted that we've got the nod to go,'' Todd said in a NZOC statement. "It's what we set out to do at the beginning and we're looking forward to being part of
Mark Todd leads way and turns back time
IN a sense, Mark Todd still has charisma even when first in the firing line. Bathed in sweat and sporting a white knitted tie, New Zealand's equestrian legend still succeeded in looking the part when he made a grand entrance to the Olympic eventing arena, shortly after dawn amid the cloying heat at Sha Tin in Hong Kong.Venturing into the dressage ring at 6.30am, the double Olympic gold medalist then took a shade over five minutes to really announce his arrival nine months after ending eight years of retirement.
Todd and Gandalf, the first of 73 combinations scrutinised by a three-member judging panel, accrued a respectable 49.4 penalties to leave him ninth from 25 riders at the end of the first session.
The
Mark Todd Reurns To Badminton
New Zealand eventing hero Mark Todd now back in England to further his revived eventing career called in at The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials. Eight years after his last competitive ride in Europe, Mark is back, with his horse Gandalf, to try and complete qualification to enable him to compete at this year’s Olympic Games in Bejiing (Hong Kong).The 51-year-old who won here on three occasions – 1980 (Southern Comfort), 1994 (Horton Point) and 1996 (Bertie Blunt) retired from the sport in 2000 after the Sydney Olympics and went back to New Zealand. He became a successful racehorse trainer although recently cut back from training to concentrate on breeding and producing.
“Although I had been thinking about get
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