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World Equestrian Games
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The World Equestrian Games are the major international championships for equestrianism, considered by many horsemen to be more important than the Olympics, and administered by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). The games are held every four years, half way between each pair of consecutive Summer Olympic Games. The games have included seven disciplines: dressage, show jumping, eventing, endurance riding, vaulting, combined driving, and reining. Paraequestrianism will be included for the first time at the 2010 games (to be held in Lexington, Kentucky), while the FEI's two remaining disciplines, tent pegging and horseball, conduct separate championships.
The WEG represent the world's top riders and the world's most skilled horses, competing over 15 days. Riders competing at WEG go through a rigorous selection process over the 4 years leading up to each competition. Each competing country sends teams selected from the very best equestrians in their discipline. Some 57 countries are represented by 800 athletes.
The 2006 WEG were covered on television in the United Kingdom by the BBC, in the United States by HorseTV, in Canada by CBC Country Canada, and in Germany by WDR.
- 1990: Stockholm, Sweden
- 1994: Den Haag, The Netherlands
- 1998: Rome, Italy
- 2002: Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
- 2006: Aachen, Germany (http://www.aachen2006.de/)
- 2010: Lexington, Kentucky at the Kentucky Horse Park (http://www.feigames2010.org/)
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| World Equestrian Games: 1990: Stockholm, Sweden; 1994: Den Haag, The Netherlands; 1998: Rome, Italy; 2002: Jerez de la Frontera, Spain; 2006: Aachen, Germany; 2010: Lexington, Kentucky, USA; 2014 FEI Games |
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