BuzzFeed · Aug 12, 2016
A Beginner's Guide To Horse Dancing At The Olympics
One of the highlights of the Olympic Games is the horse dancing.
Or dressage, as officials prefer to call it.
That’s right, the horses dance, and it is a genuine and very prestigious, legitimate sport. And it starts in Rio today.
Christian Petersen / Getty ImagesBut this isn’t just some freestyle horse-boogie – a posh person in a fancy hat and coat will teach it to do a very serious routine, and both horse and posh person will be judged on just how well they perform it.