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We had gathered a lot of local partners and we were financially invested. “We are very disappointed that the rescheduling of Tokyo 2020 has led to the cancellation of the Championships in Haras du Pin, but unfortunately we were unable to find alternative dates outside August 2021. Valérie Moulin, President of the Ustica Organizing Committee at Haras du Pin, also expressed her disappointment.
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However, we will continue to work to ensure the very highest level of FEI driving and vaulting European sport in Budapest next year.” “We strongly believed that the event would serve as a high motivation for the owners and sponsors in Hungary and in the neighboring countries and promote the sport towards the elite level, but we understand that the significant challenges of holding major FEI Championships in the Olympic and Paralympic disciplines in the year of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, has meant that unfortunately cancellation was inevitable. “It was the very first time that a Central European country had won the opportunity to organize the prestigious FEI multidiscipline European Championships," Dorottya Stróbl, Member of the Managing Board of the Budapest Organizing Committee and Secretary General of the Hungarian National Federation, said. The FEI Secretary General has overall responsibility for the FEI Calendar and is currently chairing the eight discipline-specific Task Forces that have been set up to seek ways of mitigating the effect of the current COVID-19 pandemic on the FEI calendar, including the knock-on effects into 2021. “Of course it is desperately disappointing to lose these Championships from the 2021 Calendar, but we will continue to support Budapest with their double Europeans for driving and vaulting.” “While there are some nations that have enough horsepower to send strong teams to the Olympic and Paralympic Games and also to the European Championships across the four disciplines, we have to offer a level playing field to all eligible countries and we simply cannot do that in this case, so we have agreed that the focus should be on Tokyo next year." “Together with the Organizing Committees of both Budapest and Haras du Pin, as well as the Hungarian and French National Federations, we have examined every possible option to try and save the Championships in 2021”, FEI Secretary General Sabrina Ibáñez said, “but we have reached the regrettable decision that it simply is not possible to have these important events so close to the Olympic and Paralympic Games next year."
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The FEI Board has agreed that the bid process for the European Championships 2021 in these four disciplines will not be reopened, as all organizers would face the same challenges of trying to host major Championships so close to the Tokyo Games. The new dates for the Tokyo Olympic Games are July 23 to Augand the Paralympic Games will run from August 24 through to September 5, 2021.
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The FEI European Eventing Championships 2021 were scheduled to take place August 11-15 at Haras du Pin (FRA), venue for the eventing test of the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2014, but the decision has been made to cancel the Championships following the postponement of Tokyo 2020. As part of its 50 th anniversary celebrations of the first FEI European Driving Championships in Budapest back in 1971, the organizers will maintain both driving and vaulting next year. However, the proximity of the Championships to the rescheduled Olympic and Paralympic Games has meant that it is no longer feasible to run jumping, dressage, and para dressage. The Hungarian capital of Budapest had been due to play host to five disciplines next summer – jumping, dressage, para dressage, driving, and vaulting – from August 23 to September 5. European Championships in the non-Olympic disciplines will still be organized in 2021. The FEI European Championships in the Olympic and Paralympic disciplines of jumping, eventing, dressage, and para dressage will not be held in 2021 due to the revised dates for the Tokyo Games next year. FEI - Edited Press Release USEA/Leslie Mintz Photo.