Kazu and Tokyo

The Games have begun!

Kazu, Vinci de la Vigne and Jackie arrived in Tokyo last week, and William joined them on Sunday.  William's role of supporting coaching has been a delight for such a talented rider as Kazu, and to join him in Tokyo to guide him through the next few days is particularly special.

Yesterday Alice spoke to Nicole of Equiratings about Kazu's journey to the games, take a listen and hear the remarkable story of Japanese Olympic team rider, Kazuma Tomoto.  Having never jumped a solid fence this man has made the extraordinary journey from showjumper to Olympic event rider in just 5 years, with the whole of Team Fox-Pitt behind him. Click here to listen... Kazuma Tomoto podcast

You can listen for free across all podcast platforms.  

The Olympic horse inspection took place this morning and Dressage starts tomorrow.  Of course with the time difference between the UK and Japan it is a little out of sync.  We have attached the full list of times below in Japanes local time, so deduct 8 hours.  Kazu is 5th out at 00.34 UK time tomorrow morning  (8.34am Japan time)