Jump rider without dropping in the team finals
The German show jumpers have reached the team final on Saturday (12 o'clock) without dropping. Andre Thieme (Plau am See) with Chakaria, Maurice Tebbel (Emsbüren) with Don Diarado and the world ranking Daniel Deßer (Wiesbaden) with Killer Queen finished in qualifying with a total of four time-off points, three behind the faultless Sweden and European champion Belgium. In singles Deßer had disappointed with place 18 and then questioned his own abilities. "If you want to go zero, you have to ride better," he had said and "powerful". On Friday he made it better with only a time error. With just a time error, Andre Thieme came as a starter from the course. He had just missed the final as Christian Kukuk (Riesenbeck) with Mumbai. Its space in the team took over on Friday Maurice Tebbel, who made two time mistakes, but also no pole took. "That felt great," Tebbel said, "I hope that we can be a bit faster in the final." Unchallested the Swedes to...