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REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL EXAMINES RISKS OF THE LITTLE-KNOWN SPORT EQUESTRIAN EVENTING WHEN IT RETURNS JULY 22, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO

July 21, 2025

Winner of 20 Sports Emmys® in 13 years, REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL presents more enterprising features and reporting when its 136th edition debuts TUESDAY, JULY 22 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

HBO On Demand availability: July 28-Aug. 18


*Deadly Ride. At this year’s Summer Games in Beijing, one of the most glamorous and exhilarating sports is one you may never have heard of – equestrian eventing. Consisting of three competitions – dressage, jumping and cross-country – eventing is the ultimate test of total horsemanship. Amidst the excitement of the sport, the most challenging event, cross-country, has recently come under scrutiny: In the last two years, 15 riders and a dozen horses have been killed while competing. REAL SPORTS correspondent Frank Deford takes a closer look at this tragic mystery and talks to those in and around the sport as they look for answers.

Producer: Tim Walker.

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL recently won the Sports Emmy® Award in the category of Outstanding Sports Journalism for Bernard Goldberg’s piece “NFL Concussions Impact.” REAL SPORTS has won the Sports Emmy® for Outstanding Sports Journalism 11 of the last 13 years, in addition to being the first sports program honored with the duPont Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.

The executive producers of REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL are Ross Greenburg and Rick Bernstein; Kirby Bradley is senior producer.

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