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Three-member Canadian Olympic Team for Show Jumping Finishes Fifth


August 6, 2012, London, England - With all three scores counting, the Canadian Olympic Team for Show Jumping persevered to finish fifth in the team competition on Monday, August 6, at the 2012 London Olympic Games.


Despite the disqualification of Tiffany Foster of Schomberg, ON, just prior to the start of the first round of team competition on Sunday, her team- mates Jill Henselwood of Oxford Mills, ON, defending Olympic Champion Eric Lamaze of Schomberg, ON, and 10-time Canadian Olympian Ian Millar of Perth, ON, rallied to finish fifth over- all in the final team standings. All three scores had to be counted as Canada did not have the advan- tage of a drop score. Canada and Brazil were the only nations competing in Monday’s team event with three members.


Entering Monday’s Team Final in sixth posi- tion carrying a total of five faults, the Canadian Olympic Team for Show Jumping added 21 faults to bring its two-round total to 26 faults. Both Mil- lar and Lamaze qualified to move forward to the two-round Individual Final on Wednesday, August 6.


Setting a world record in London by compet- ing in more Olympic Games than any athlete in any sport, Millar incurred four faults in Monday’s competition. His rail came at fence nine ‘a’, the first element of a double combination. “It was a regrettable four faults,” said Millar,


65. “I thought we were good, to tell you the truth. I heard the rub and wasn’t sure if we had it down or not, and I was not about to look over at the scoreboard! In Star Power’s history, if he’s going to have a rail, he’s likely to have it at a tall vertical of the combination.”


Millar finished three rounds of individual qualification tied for 11th place with a total of eight faults.


“He gets better every day, and I’m optimistic about Wednesday,” said Millar of his Olympic mount Star Power, an 11-year-old Dutch-bred


gelding owned by Team Works.


The top 35 athletes from the original starting field of 75, limited to a maximum of three individuals per nation, advance to the two-round Individual Final on Wednesday, August 8. All athletes start with a clean slate of zero penal-


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