A decision by the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) to annul results from its events at Villeneuve-Loubet in France, that concluded in January 2020, was successfully challenged last week. Consequently, the jumping rankings have been recalculated and there are also changes to the individual quotas for this year’s Olympic Games. Sri Lanka, thanks to the reinstatement of results achieved by its rider Mathilda Karlsson in France, now has an individual place for Tokyo. While acknowledging that there had been a violation of FEI rules, the panel declared “the rule violation would never have occurred without the FEI’s erroneous authorisation of the updated schedules”. “The organiser could not have implemented the updates without permission of both the FFE and FEI,” CAS said.

Source: The Nation April 29, 2021 23:37 UTC