Christian Kukuk has issued a statement to refute the impression that he was excluded from the Olympic team due to his non-participation in the Aachen World Championships. According to a press release from Pferdesport Deutschland, this impression was created by Kukuk. In a statement, the Olympic champion makes it clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201eDear friends! I was also surprised by the press release from Pferdesport Deutschland regarding Checker\u2019s inclusion in LA28. It left a somewhat unclear impression that I would like to correct. The crucial point is that even before the World Championships I had a conversation with the national coach in which we discussed taking Checker out of the German squad after the World Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aachen was supposed to be his last championship \u2013 the European Championship next year was never a consideration, and the 2028 Olympics are still far away. Checkers\u2019 well-being and longevity are always our top priority, and his best interests always come before sport itself. Should Checker \u2013 who would then be 18 in 2028 \u2013 still perform at the level of recent years, the Olympic Games are by no means ruled out \u2013 just as they would have been guaranteed, I would still have remained part of the squad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Above all, this change gives me the opportunity to make the Checkers tournament schedule significantly more individual and flexible in the meantime \u2013 always with their well-being in mind \u2013 and at the same time to focus more on young horses like Akarad, Viki van Gogh and Carrera, so that they too will one day have the chance to follow in Checkers\u2019 footsteps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My next tournament with Checker will be in a few weeks in Spruce Meadows, and I\u2019m looking forward to getting back in the ring with him. Thank you for your support, Christian.\u201c<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Christian Kukuk hat sich mit einem Statement gegen den Eindruck gewehrt, er habe Checker aufgrund seines Nicht-Einsatzes bei der WM in Aachen aus dem Olympia-Kader zur\u00fcck gezogen. Dieser Eindruck sei nach einer Pressemitteilung von Pferdesport Deutschland entstanden, so Kukuk. In einem Statement stellt der Olympiasieger klar: „Liebe Freunde! Auch ich … Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101647"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101654,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101647\/revisions\/101654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101647"}],"curies":[{"name":"well played","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}