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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][list][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's nice that unathletic wealthy people still have a way to compete in the olympics [/quote]

I grew up on a horse farm, and I competed in dressage and three-day eventing/show jumping for years.  You DO have to be athletic, actually.  We ran, did weights, and there was intense pressure to maintain a certain body weight and form.  Riding is not just sitting, despite what you may believe.  I had an aunt who had been a prima ballerina and ran a dance school, and it always seemed to me that the physical demands and pressure re: body image and training on the ballerinas was similar to what you find in the upper competitive circles of elite equestrian sports.  (Not that I was ever allowed to or invited to dance: [b]ballet and riding train muscles the "opposite" way, so one destroys the potential and capacity to engage in the other at the elite level)[/b].  [/quote]

[b]I think this is really a stretch.[/b] [/quote]

My aunt was a prima ballerina with a company in Europe.  I'm pretty sure she knew what she was talking about.[/quote]

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