[Closed] "I'm not watching the Olympics/FFS Claire ****Balding again!" thread?

I like Balding. She knows sport and seems to have a genuine passion for it.

I love the Olympics and really enjoy watching sports that I would never usually watch, I enjoy learning about them. Dressage though, it utterly defeats me. I cannot even begin to fathom how that can be justified as an Olympic sport.

Were they still fired out of a catapult-flinger thing?

I think it was released from a cage/trap by pulling a cord. Hence why you still shout "Pull" when you want someone to operate the flinger thing - which is still called a trap.