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Germany barely makes the finals in Olympic Team Jumping

August 17, 2025

What on earth was happening to the hot favourites who normally prove so untouchable at this level of the sport? The German riders, usually dominant in show jumping, looked stunned when none of their riders scored a clean round, finishing the evening with 20 faults.

Even Meredith wasn’t really sure what was going on.

“It’s not like we are not used to pressure, it’s just a big surprise here today,” she said afterward. She was happy with her round with Shutterfly - “I was maybe too fast into the triple”, she admitted, but she had expected that her team would have produced better results. So had here been a German miscalculation about their whole approach to this Olympic contest? Had they been over-confident in the early stages? “We had a plan, that we would use the first competition to train a bit the other day - it wasn’t that we didn’t take it seriously but maybe we didn’t get that right,” she said. “We are going to have to go back and sit together and discuss what has happened - it’s certainly not what we expected,” she added.

“Its a good, fair course but we will have to prepare for the second round tomorrow -We won’t be giving up, we will come out fighting,” she insisted.

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