1.   On his third obstacle in a two-mile jumping event, however, the communication between horse and rider broke down somehow.

2.   For years, track and field athletes have made social bets with one another on who will win a race or a jumping event or whatever.

3.   NBC is trying to change it from blue to red for upcoming jumping events.

4.   A rest day was also incorporated between the qualification rounds and finals of jumping events.

5.   After all, the Japanese had performed superbly at World Cup jumping events this season.

6.   American Todd Lodwick, who placed second in the jumping event finished sixth, after the cross-country.

7.   Australia won the gold, while Britain finished second in the three-day jumping event.

8.   Eric van der Vleuten of the Netherlands took his first World Cup victory as he won the Western Europe League jumping event Saturday.

9.   Finland, competing without star Janne Ahonen, easily won a World Cup team jumping event Saturday.

10.   His countryman Koji Takazawa, who won the jumping event, abandoned the cross-country race two kilometers before the finish.