Olympic Riders Get a Peek at the Cross-Country Course
Australian rider Clayton Fredericks is looking forward to an advantage for early starters in the Olympic cross country event on the rain-soaked Beas River course in Hong Kong on Monday.
Riders and coaches got their first peek at the course, finding it mostly uphill and a stern early test with eight jumping efforts for the riders in the first minute.
Fredericks, whose British-born wife Lucinda is also on the eventing team, is expecting to be the first Australian rider to hit the course.
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