United States Eventing Association

Due to a few technical problems, we unfortunately received photographer Shannon Brinkman’s final blog a little later than we’d hoped. But don’t worry, it’s a real doozy! Relive all the excitement of watching our US team members compete in the final phase of this year’s Olympic Games. Enjoy!

Planning my day out at Beas River consists of many things like making sure all the batteries are charged, digital cards ready, asking myself exactly what equipment to bring, studying the locations of fences so I know where I am going and underlining the Americans and top riders on the order of go so that I make sure I get photos of everyone that the magazines will need to publish.

Photographer Shannon Brinkman shares the cross-country walk with course designer Michael Etherington-Smith. When we left Shannon last, she was describing this picturesque and challenging course… read as she finishes up the course, and celebrates the brilliant performances of the US team in the dressage phase!

Photographer Shannon Brinkman shares her journey to the Games and gives the inside scoop on the cross-country course! The excitement is building… can you feel it? Don’t forget to log on to NBC.com to check out the video line-up. Tonight, they’ll be streaming eventing dressage (I think…) at 6:30PM!

In case you missed any of the action at the 2007 Pan Am Games down in Rio, get the inside scoop with photographer Shannon Brinkman. She kindly provided the USEA with a daily blog of her adventures down in South America. Although it's a bit of late news, it still makes for great reading - thank you, Shannon!