Comments on: When was the last time the U.S. came home empty-handed from the Olympics? http://www.horsenation.com/2012/08/09/q-when-was-the-last-time-the-u-s-equestrian-team-came-home-empty-handed-from-the-olympics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=q-when-was-the-last-time-the-u-s-equestrian-team-came-home-empty-handed-from-the-olympics horsing around the world Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:02:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: wylie http://www.horsenation.com/2012/08/09/q-when-was-the-last-time-the-u-s-equestrian-team-came-home-empty-handed-from-the-olympics/#comment-8996 wylie Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:16:22 +0000 http://www.horsenation.com/?p=14326#comment-8996 Haha, thanks for the kind words–especially coming from you, our historian extraordinaire! I thought, “I hope I’m not stealing Lorraine’s idea for next week’s column!”

]]> By: Lorraine http://www.horsenation.com/2012/08/09/q-when-was-the-last-time-the-u-s-equestrian-team-came-home-empty-handed-from-the-olympics/#comment-8995 Lorraine Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:08:08 +0000 http://www.horsenation.com/?p=14326#comment-8995 1956 was also the first year that women were allowed to compete in Equestrian events at all! Ah, I love Olympic History! It gives us all so much perspective. We have lost before, we will lose again. We have had extraordinary triumphs before, and we will again. We have broken down barriers and rebuilt our programs before, we will do it again.

Great article!

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