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Kurt Vonnegut worked for Sports Illustrated before becoming a novelist but was fired after turning in a one-sentence feature on an equestrian event that read, "The horse jumped over the f---ing fence."

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Mexico sports culture includes bullfighting, Charreria (equestrian events), and soccer (called football in some parts of the world).

What are equestrian events?

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what equestrian events are in the olympics?

1. The 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne Australia but because of strict quarantine rules, the equestrian events were held in Sweden six months before the rest of the events.

2. Hobby-horsing is a popular sport in Finland that simulates traditional equestrian events including competing in dressage and show jumping. The main difference being the rider isn't riding a real horse, they are riding a hobby-horse.

3. The 1956 Melbourne Olympics were actually co-hosted because "Australian quarantine laws were too severe to allow the entry of foreign horses, so the equestrian events were held separately in Stockholm in June."

4. There is such a thing as Competitive Hobbyhorse in which competitors compete in equestrian jumping and dressing events while riding toy horses on a stick.

5. To get to the World Cup in the US, horses for the World Cup equestrian event are loaded into portable, pod-like stalls, that are transported and locked down into a giant aircraft (and that 40 horses can be worth $150 million.)

6. Due to host nation Australia's strict quarantine rules for the 1956 Summer Olympics, the equestrian events were held in Sweden.

7. Strict Aussie quarantine laws forced equestrian events for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics to be held in Stockholm 6 months before, with each having their own opening ceremonies.

8. The horses in Olympic equestrian events have their own passports and fly business class

9. The 1900 Olympics featured both long jump and high jump... of horses. In fact, the 1900 Olympic games are the only ones to ever feature equestrian high jump and long jump events

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