Equestrian

I don’t understand horse riding. How can some people be better than others?  The whole point is that the horse is riding around and jumping over gates, not the rider.  Yes, you would have to learn how to ride horses and direct them to take certain actions, but its not like hurdles where you have to train and perform at the peak of physical ability.

I feel like it’s similar to arena robot fighting.  As long as you have the best robot, you could give it to some random kid, and by teaching them how to work it, they could win every competition.

I say we give the medals and awards to the horses, not the riders.  The horse is doing all the work, while the rider just sits on top.

Well then, for NASCAR, why don’t we give the trophies to the cars?  Surely the cars are doing all the work, all the driver has to do is sit down and push buttons and turn a wheel?  I say we give medals to the pit-stop workers.  The real engineering feet isn’t that we can build cars that make wide left turns, but that a car can be refilled and have its tires changed in under five seconds.