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Skijoring hits the American Wild West

(bareboards2)
9 years 1 month 3 weeks ago

Found this description on Facebook: SKIJORING: THE EQUINE SPORT THAT ALMOST MADE IT TO THE WINTER OLYMPICS! Sadly, there are no equestrian events in the Winter Olympics, but did you know that one horse-related activity almost made the cut?

Skijoring, the Nordic sport in which a skier is pulled over a cross country course by a horse, began in the 1800s as a means of transportation for army dispatches and became a popular sport among adrenaline junkies at the time. Competitive skijoring was included in the Nordic Games, a predecessor to the Winter Olympics. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, helped bring the sport in as an Olympic demonstration sport at the 1928 St. Mortiz Games.

Without the jumps and obstacles common in modern courses though, the sport didn’t catch on and was quickly dropped from the Olympic scene. Skijoring is still popular in Scandinavia and Switzerland, and is catching on in some regions of North America, too!