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We are allowed to "byod" but you have to install so much software and multifactor security settings to lock down the devices I find it easier to just have a work mobile, even if it's an antique iPhone se.

I use my own phone to check in on Teams / Outlook etc. The downside is having those apps (plus Authenticator) installed, but I prefer that to carrying around two phones.

Beating a horse up:

CAUTION- UPSETTING This is part of the video - you can hear the
determined lash of the whip torturing the poor horse. Charlotte
Dujardin should never be let near an animal again and she should be
stripped of all Olympic Medals.

https://x.com/LucindasIreland/status/1815993564670619725

What is the actual point of that? She's trying to make it jump around?

As for "error of judgement" she looks calm as fuck and that's not the first time she's done that

She's trying to make it jump around?

Basically yes; dressage is the Strictly Come Dancing of the equine sports world so punishment beatings are mandatory.

The “error in judgment” was in allowing herself to be caught on video. Like people who beat their kids, she’s taking her frustration at failing to get what she wants out on a being that can’t fully comprehend what is demanded of it or why it should comply. Shitty, bratty person.

Call me prejudiced, but you only have to look at her name…

I bet that is standard procedure for training any dressage horse. How else would you get them to move so unnaturally? Whoever released this a week before the Olympics has SERIOUS hatred of her

Animal abuse happens all the time, whether in competitive equestrian sports or in the general animal torture and murder industries. It gets exposed far too rarely. Exceptions like this video only prove the rule that for the most part people don't give a fig because they're not confronted with evidence and can conveniently keep contributing to the economic viability of the exploitation.

Yeah don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning it in the slightest. I agree with you I very much doubt this is an isolated incident.

What happened to the RSPCA privately prosecuting people for this sort of thing.

I think you normally only get three years from the incident under the Animal Welfare Act (but there is an exceptional circumstance bit also).

You don't think she pulled herself up by her riding bootstraps?

Its not standard and pretty frowned upon by trainers.

Time to kick dressage out of the Olympics. Along with everything else that is primarily judgedz eg diving, floor gymnastics, synchronised swimming, ice dancing, etc

Understand there's a school of thought in the IOC that would gladly get rid of horse 'sports'. Most people give zero shits about watching it, and they're hugely expensive, take loads of resource and space, and lay them open to animal abuse accusations (see also the horse-puncher in the last Olympics). Balanced against the fact that loads of IOC members are privileged fucks who are still pissed that they no longer have Olympic pistol duelling and live pigeon shooting (both real former events).

It'd be lovely if this cruel, nasty twat helped bring down the whole sport as an Olympic event tho.

Seems it was in Holland, don't know whether that would make a difference or would need to be tried there.

Rebelled against daddy.

and skateboarding!

...freestyle bmx

Yep,
If I need adjudicators to tell me who has won it's not a sport, it's a pastime.
Citius, altius, fortius. It's quite simple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citius,_Altius,_Fortius

Which makes the case for Darts & all Cue sports to replace horses at the Olympics.

Like football, with all their judges, line judges and video judges.

Floor gymnastics is judged, but really I think that's legacy because all moves have difficulty ratings attached, and the execution score is very prescriptive.

At Olympic level, for execution, a gymnast is either scoring 10-9, 9-8, 8-7 and at that level that's effectively 2, 1, 0. If you score below 8 then you might as well be sat on the sofa watching it with me.

But I take your point.

Or all the judges in the running contests making sure everyone stays in lane and doesn't contact an opponent.
Scoring a competitor is different to having judges to ensure rules are adhered to.