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The USA has won 1 team silver and 1 individual bronze 
and  4 team bronze Olympic Dressage Medals

Grand Prix & Short Grand Prix Test

There has been some question about whether scores from the Short Grand Prix Test - required for the CDI***W competitions would count for USET selection trial competitors.  This is the response from Maureen Pethick, USET Dressage:

A Short Grand Prix was NEVER required for USET Qualifying, but is allowed. The riders are required to compete in a Grand Prix and a Grand Prix Special at one qualifier and a Grand Prix and Grand Prix Freestyle at another qualifier. When the Selection Procedures were done, it was prior to the FEI requiring the Short Grand Prix at all World Cup competitions.  Therefore, since we can not change our 
Selection Procedures and since the regular Grand Prix is still the 
requirement for the Olympics we allowed the riders to do one Short Grand Prix. The reason being that some of our qualifiers are CDI-Ws, therefore, the Committee felt that one of the two could be a Short Grand Prix, but obviously not both. If a rider does two Short Grand Prixs and no regular, the scores do not count toward qualifying. The regular Grand Prix is what they are required to do at both USET Selection Trials and at the Olympic Games so it does not make sense to allow them to do a Short Grand Prix at both of their qualifiers.  That was the reasoning behind the decision - we had that thrown at us after the fact, 
but by allowing one of each it also allows the riders to obtain World Cup 
scores at the same time - otherwise they would have had to do 2 USET Qualifiers that were not World Cup and two that were if they were actually trying to do both - ie: if they don't make the top 12 for the Selection they may qualify for the World Cup League Final in October in Washington.

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