Michael Vaughan
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All this walking.
Walking and stuff.
So I have brushed into it.
But it seems like a much more individual world.
Am I right?
When you're an equestrian team, you're still kind of looking after yourself.
It is funny to sort of watch because obviously everything that they do is about herself, the horse.
And then when you come to World Champs Olympics and you're on the team...
you then have to bring four or five riders or five riders and two individuals or whatever together.
And you actually have to work as a team.
And some people can do it.
It's like the Ryder Cup.
Some people can do it because they're built in that way.
They want to play together.
Whereas the thing that...
he's always said about the Americans is they can't work as a team but then come singles matches they're fine because they know exactly what they have to do that's the sort of same with the equestrian side and watching the four of them on the team come together and someone might have to go first and actually be a bit of a
I walked that course at Rio and thought, how are people seriously doing this?
I mean, it seems absolutely, I mean, there's someone hurling a ball at you out there at 90 miles an hour.
You can kind of control that, but when you're on a horse and asked to leap those enormous fences and the drops, frangible pins, I know about them now.
I've brought a bit of knowledge with me, but that is a brave sport, isn't it?