Everyone’s All Winning Gold Medals & We’re Like …

Ok, Michael Phelps, we get it. You can put your shirt back on now.

Everyone (well, not EVERYONE, but you know what I mean) is off winning gold medals at the Olympics, and here I am thinking…

1. Michael Phelps just won his 21st gold medal and here I am trying to convince my horse to just walk through a puddle.

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2. Those synchronized swimmers work so well in unison, and yet I resemble a sack of potatoes flopping around on my horse’s back while he canters.

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3. Kim Rhode can shoot a hole in a needle, and my horse is afraid of gunfire and all loud noises….and plastic bags.

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4. All those dressage horses are being all dressage-y and giving to the bit and I’m pretty sure my horse has contracted tetanus … judging from his apparent lockjaw.

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5. The pole-vaulters can clear like 20 feet and here my horse is refusing to step over a cavaletti.

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6. The marathon runners don’t seem to even break a sweat and my horse is throwing a temper tantrum when I ask him to lunge twice around the round pen.

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7. The divers don’t mind jumping off a diving board 50 feet in the air, and my horse has an issue stepping in and out of the trailer.

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Horse Nation: keeping it real since 2012. Go Olympics, and go riding!