Laura Graves of the United States (silver), Isabell Werth of Germany (gold), and Charlotte Dujardin of Britain (bronze) took medals in Friday's Grand Prix Special. |||Photo: FEI/Martin Dokoupil

Following yesterday’s announcement of the intention to hold the Helgstrand dressage freestyle competition on Monday morning due to extreme rainfall forecast for Sunday’s original time slot of 8:30 a.m., further discussions have been taking place to review the options available to reschedule.

Despite the best efforts of the whole Tryon 2018 team and the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) World Equestrian Games (WEG) Officials, who have been working on plans for rescheduling since yesterday evening, including meetings with the chefs de mission and chefs d’equipe, the logistics of putting all necessary elements into place in time have proved insurmountable. As a result, and very regrettably, the dressage freestyle has been canceled.

“This was not an easy decision, but we have explored every option, including trying to reschedule the horse departures, and even looking at moving the competition into the indoor with a change of footing, but the logistics of making all this happen are just not possible,” said Tryon 2018 Organizing Committee President Michael Stone said