'It's very realistic,' one competitor said.
“I did notice four or five horses really taking a spook to that,” British rider Harry Charles said, noting that the figure’s presence at obstacle No. 10 provides quite an eyeful for the equines.A show jumper rides behind an obstacle with a sumo wrestler beside it in an event at the Tokyo Olympics.
“As you come around, you see a big guy’s” butt, Charles added after the qualifying round for the individual jumping.“It is very realistic,” Israeli rider Teddy Vlock said. “It does look like a person, and that’s a little spooky. You know, horses don’t want to see a guy, like, looking intense next to a jump, looking like he’s ready to fight you.”A rider clears the barrier as the statue of a sumo wrestler looks in the Tokyo Olympics equestrian competition.
The sumo wrestler statue at the Tokyo Olympics' equestrian site is distracting some horses, competitors say. Jessica Springsteen, the daughter of iconic rocker Bruce Springsteen, was among those who failed to qualify on Tuesday. But her problem seemed to happen at a different barrier than the sumo one. She and her horse, Don Juan van de Donkhoeve, were docked 4 penalty points for “knocking down a rail around the 11th obstacle,”Jessica Springsteen, aboard Don Juan Van De Donkhoeve, did not advance past the jumping individual qualifier but has another event left.
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