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Miloserdova Not Eligible For Italian Olympic Ticket due to Wrong Owner Nationality Wed, 06/09/2021 - 14:27
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Norway s release of its individual Olympic spot became a pleasant surprise for Italy, who is now eligible to send a contender to Tokyo. The highest ranked Italian rider on the FEI World Ranking list is Russian born Italian Tatiana Miloserdova.
Just five days after she received the news that she in the number one spot for the Tokyo Games, the Italian Equestrian Federation notified her that she is not eligible to compete in Tokyo because the ownership of her horse was never switched to the Italian nationality.
German Big Guns Out in Force
Reigning five-time series champion and World No. 1, Germany’s Isabell Werth, heads the sparkling start-list for the FEI Dressage World Cup™ qualifier in Salzburg, Austria this weekend.
She will partner Weihegold OLD, the 16-year-old mare with which she claimed the prestigious title at the last three Finals, in Omaha (USA) in 2017, Paris (FRA) in 2017 and Gothenburg (SWE) in 2019.
And the German challenge will be mighty one, as Werth is joined by compatriots Jessica von Bredow-Werndl who holds the World No. 3 spot and Olympians Dorothee Schneider and Helen Langehanenberg.
Only one other leg of the 2020/2021 Western European League qualifying series has taken place so far, at Aarhus in Denmark in October where the host nation’s Cathrine Dufour and Bohemian came out on top.