Ryan’s Rave: Building for Brisbane 2032 starts now!

By Heath Ryan

Well, it’s December 2021 and what a tumultuous and disastrous and momentarily super-successful and then disrupted year all in one we have experienced in the equestrian world! 

Everything, I mean absolutely everything, has been so impacted by Covid-19, including whatever is still to come! Three years ago, no one in the whole world would have believed the Covid-19 adventure that was to unfold (maybe not a good adventure but an adventure nevertheless.)  

Well, life goes on. In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics — against all the odds and opinions from the public and the astute experts — went ahead and proved to be an amazing success. An amazing success! The courage and resilience of the Japanese organisers and the enthusiastic support from all over the world from the best of our best athletes, not just in equestrian but from across all sports, was magnificent. It was truly, truly magnificent. Clearly Tokyo against all odds rose to the occasion and illustrated to the world that no matter what the hardship, we all have an exciting future and we all need to get on with it.  

Right, so Australia was magnificent in earning a team silver Eventing medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and now we need to move on and get our sights firmly fixed on the 2022 FEI World Championships...

 Read the full article in the December issue of Equestrian Life magazine here.