{"id":5709,"date":"2012-08-01T04:45:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T21:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2019-03-21T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T18:16:32","slug":"equine-olympic-athletes-supported-by-state-of-the-art-medical-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/equine-olympic-athletes-supported-by-state-of-the-art-medical-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Equine Olympic athletes supported by state of the art medical facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equine athletes competing at the Olympics and Paralympics at Greenwich Park will undergo pre-event fitness checks and have their cuts, scrapes and sprains dealt with at an on-site temporary clinic constructed specially for the London 2012 Games, says the governing FEI (International Equine Federation).<\/p>\n<p>The state-of-the-art facility, built to stringent specifications in only three weeks, provides 24-hour veterinary care for the animals \u2013 and medical checks not even human athletes get, says veterinary services manager Jenny Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take it for granted, but no-one inspects the human athletes before their competition, no-one ensures their fitness to compete, but that is standard protocol for all equestrian events,\u201d she said in an FEI statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/olympics\/equine-athletes-enjoy-superior-medical-care-at-london-2012\/article4448104\/?cmpid=rss1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state-of-the-art facility, built to stringent specifications in only three weeks, provides 24-hour veterinary care for the animals \u2013 and medical checks not even human athletes get, says veterinary services manager Jenny Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8561,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions\/8561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}