Beezie Madden
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Why Beezie Madden no longer rides Team USA and for world ranking points

She won gold at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and 2008 in Beijing with Team USA and individual bronze in Hong Kong, individual and team silver at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen and 2014 in Caen, France, she took victory in the Rolex Grand Prix in Aachen in 2007 and in the World Cup Final in 2013 and 2018, she made it to fifth place in the world rankings in 2015. The US rider Elizabeth, called Beezie, Madden has undisputedly been one of the greats of equestrian sport for many years.
But in the meantime she is only 364th in the world rankings, and more than a year ago she competed for the last time in a European course, with the US team at the Nations Cup in Rotterdam. Since then, Beezie Madden has been competing exclusively in her American home country and in Canada. On the sidelines of a training event of the Canadian Sport Horse Association, a Madden Method Symposium with her and her husband John Madden, she now explained the reasons to the "Canadian Horse Journal".

On the sidelines of the symposium, Beezie Madden told of what has fundamentally changed her life and thus her attitude to competitive sport: her tumour, which - although not life-threatening - occasionally affects her balance. "Some days I'm 100 per cent fit and other days I'm a bit woozy. So I can't compete in a team and deliver for the team when I might not be at 100 per cent."
"I'm trying to come down. I'm not trying to get on Championship teams or stay high on the FEI rankings anymore. We did that for quite a while, but I lost the passion for it." Only when her proven success partner Breitling LS (by Quintero) "feels like it and the timing is good, do I do heavy tests with him." Like last month in Ottawa and Traverse City.

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