Irish eventers with ground to make up but optimistic about cross-country

O’Connor leads the way with promise of best to come The Agria Irish Eventing team lies in 11th after the opening dressage phase of competition at the Olympic Games today. Dag Albert’s squad of Sarah Ennis, Susie Berry and Austin O’Connor finished with an accumulated tally of 102.70 penalty points to be a little further back than they would have liked among the 16 competing nations. However, the cross-country is the traditional strength of the Irish and given the predicted testing nature of the tomorrow’s track, and the show jumping still to come on Monday, there is optimism within the camp that they can make up some places tomorrow. This has been the trend as Ireland travelled to Paris off the back of some excellent results, winning the home Nations Cup in Millstreet earlier in the campaign, before a third-place finish at Aachen most recently. And Austin O’Connor, who scored […]