Does anyone know the name of the horse event they showed right before rowing? It looked like some kind of cross country skills event. Seemed like every participant was some kind of military officer.
One scene showed the horses going down a slope then being forced to jump a fence at the bottom. Then they showed the horses jumping a fence into a pond. The competition looked brutal for the horses.
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It is, I believe, the cross-country portion of the eventing competition, or "military" as it is also called in the German narration in the film. It was indeed raced by military officers. There's a note at Wikipedia about that water obstacle, which was apparently controversial:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_at_the_1936_Summer_Olympics
Thanks much pbn.
Interesting that the Wikipedia article specifically mentioned the event we saw in the movie.
Controversy
The 1936 Olympics produced controversial results, with the Germans winning all 6 gold medals, the only time in Olympic history where one team has made a clean sweep. There were protests from all 18 teams at the Games. One incident occurred on the cross-country course in the eventing competition, where the 4th fence, a 3 ft post-and-rail dropping into a pond, produced a great number of falls. The landing was much deeper than anticipated and the footing underneath did not hold up well. However, all of the German team members made it through without a problem, suggesting that the host team might have known the true condition of the obstacle.
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