On Thursday, July 14, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Equestrian Canada named the 10 athletes nominated to represent Team Canada in the three equestrian disciplines at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

Both eventing and show jumping will field teams of four athletes, while two individuals will represent Canada in dressage. 

The teams are as follows: 

Eventing

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The French Equestrian Federation announced their Olympic teams on July 13.

The eventing team will consist of:

Astier Nicolas and Piaf de B'Neville

Karim-Florent Laghouag and Entebbe De Hus

Mathieu Lemoine and Bart L

Thibaut Vallette and Qing du Briot

The traveling alternate is Nicolas Touzaint and Crocket 30.

The dressage team is:

Stéphanie Brieussel and Amorak

The possibility of the Ukrainian show jumping team participating in the Rio Olympic Games has been called into question as Oleksandr Onyshchenko, the organizer and funding behind the team, has been charged with fraud in Ukraine.

After a disappointing observation event at the Rome CSIO, Solem went home for a few days then back to Europe to prepare for their second and final observation event at the Rotterdam CSIO (the Netherlands). There she and VDL Wizard logged two 8-fault rounds in the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup, and the U.S. team finished in overall fifth.

When the U.S. show jumping team for the Rio Olympic Games was named, Solem's name wasn't on the list.

Luciana Diniz’s mother told her, “Life starts at 40.” At 41, Diniz met Fit For Fun 13.

And now Diniz, 45, and the dynamic chestnut mare “Fitti” head to Rio having earned one of 15 quota spots allotted by the FEI to compete at the Olympics as an individual as the top performer of the South Western Europe qualifying group,.