THE final Olympic discipline rule changes to discuss in this mini-series is dressage, most likely the sport that the Irish fans are least up to date with rules-wise due to Ireland never fielding a team at the Olympic Games before.

The ‘Girls in Green’ (Judy Reynolds, Anna Merveldt, Heike Holstein and Kate Dwyer), as they have become fondly known, created history at the FEI Dressage European Championships in Rotterdam in August when finishing seventh and second of the three teams looking for that ticket to Tokyo 2020.