{"id":28351,"date":"2016-08-06T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T23:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=28351"},"modified":"2017-02-10T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T23:33:08","slug":"day-one-trials-and-tribulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2016\/08\/day-one-trials-and-tribulations\/","title":{"rendered":"RIO: Day One Trials and Tribulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca reports:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst days\u201d can often be a little trying while you sort the system and work out where everything is and so it was today. Because our accommodation is a military base, our wake up call is the 6am cry of offices\u2026.in serried ranks assembled. We are feeling quite safe with the multitude of solders with guns with which we find ourselves surrounded.<\/p>\n<p>Our accommodation is basic but new, and talking to a member of the US Team, a good side better than the athletes\u2019 digs! That being said, the athlete\u2019s village, which is about 30 minutes from us, is quite impressive, from the outside at least! A huddle of high-rises draped in each country\u2019s banners;\u00a0 Italian cyclists hitting the nearby roads, Slovakian walkers training with their coaches on scooters, athletes everywhere making use of the wide paths and roads for off venue training.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_3668.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_3668.jpg\" alt=\"thumbnail_IMG_3668\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_3668.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_3668-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Australian athlete accommodation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The main media centre is impressive too. Enormous! And the main floor doesn\u2019t even include the big players who have their own separate offices in an adjacent small high-rise. The equestrian media room is well laid out, right next to the arena with media conferences taking place right up the front. Security is tight as is biosecurity which means we have to squelch our way over squishy antiseptic filled mats to enter the precinct.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_3670.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_3670.jpg\" alt=\"thumbnail_IMG_3670\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_3670.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_3670-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Main media centre<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are all getting around on the official buses, all as new smelling as the Olympic Hwy which is ours alone. They are prompt and frequent (except for today where everything basically closed down at midday to prepare for the opening ceremony).<\/p>\n<p>As you would probably already know, all our Aussie eventers are through the first trot up and ready to literally go for gold starting tomorrow with the first day of the dressage. Go Aussies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca reports: \u201cFirst days\u201d can often be a little trying while you sort the system and work out where everything is and so it was today. Because our accommodation is a military base, our wake up call is the 6am cry of offices\u2026.in serried ranks assembled. We are feeling quite safe with the multitude of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28351"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32433,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351\/revisions\/32433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}