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Olympics Equestrian
Equestrianism or the skill of riding or driving horses includes both use of horses for practical, working purposes as well as recreational activities and competitive sports. Equestrianism made its Summer Olympics debut at the 1900 in Paris, France. It disappeared until 1912, and then appeared at every Olympics edition after that. Current competitions authorized at the Olympics are Dressage, the Three-Day Event and Stadium Jumping. In each discipline, both individual and team medals are awarded. In the Olympics, men and women can ride together on the same team and against each other in the same events. The rider and the horse both win medals as a team. In the Olympics they ride English style as there are different kinds of ways to ride.

The best estimate of when horses first carried riders was approximately 5000 years ago. The earliest archaeological evidence of horses being ridden was in the military: chariot warfare in ancient times was followed by the use of war horses as light and heavy cavalry. However, horses were also ridden for domestic purposes and to carry messages in both war and peacetime. The horse and horseback riding played important roles throughout history and all over the world.

The discipline traces its roots to Xenophon, a Greek horseman and historian, to 17th- and 18th-century cavalry officers who considered the maneuvers a valuable training method. Some forms of competition are recognized worldwide and are a part of the equestrian events at the Olympic Games which include Dressage ("training" in French) involving the progressive training of the horse to a high level of impulsion, collection, and obedience. Competitive dressage involves the horse in displaying the natural movements that it performs without thinking while running loose. The competition is held in three rounds. The third round is a freestyle test set to music, first introduced in 1996, that is scored both for technique and artistry. One dressage master has defined it as "returning the freedom of the horse while carrying the rider." Show jumping is a timed event judged on the ability of the horse and rider to jump over a series of obstacles, in a given order with the fewest refusals or knockdowns of the obstacles. Eventing or combined training, puts together the obedience of dressage with the athletic ability of show jumping, the fitness demands the cross-country jumping phase. In the last-named, the horses jump over fixed obstacles, such as logs, stone walls, banks, ditches, and water, trying to finish the course under the "optimum time." There was also the 'Steeple Chase' Phase, which is now excluded to bring competitions in line with the Olympic standard.

In the jumping event, competitors complete a course of 15-20 obstacles within a specific time. The object is to navigate the course with the fewest penalties, which are given for knocking down obstacles, balking at jumps, or falls by rider and/or horse. The obstacles include fences up to 5 1/4 ft. high and 6ft. wide. A tie for first place is settled by a jump-off over a shorter, faster course. Three-day eventing is the most grueling of the Olympic equestrian events, combining dressage, show jumping, and a cross-country phase. On the first day, riders demonstrate the training and obedience of their horses in a dressage test. The next day they compete in the exciting cross-country phase where they gallop 5,700m over varying terrain and jump up to 45 obstacles. While these obstacles are not as high as those in show jumping they are more solid and include ditches and fences in water. On the final day horse-and-rider teams compete over a show jumping course. This last phase demonstrates the fitness of the horses and how quickly they can recover from the previous day's trial. Eventing competitors do not win points, but instead incur penalty points during each phase. The winners are the rider and team with the fewest penalty points.

Although initially only military cavalry officers could compete in Equestrian events from 1912 until 1952, and the IOC did not allow women or even civilian men to compete until the 1952 Summer Olympics. Along with sailing, Equestrian is now one of the very few Olympic events where individual men and women compete directly against one another with no split of men's and women's divisions. In team competition, there is no requirement for mixed divisions with balanced numbers of men and women; a team may have any mix of male and female competitors. Equestrian and the Equestrian component of Modern Pentathlon are also the only Olympic events that involve animals. The horse is as much an athlete as the humans.

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