World Equestrian Games: By the numbers
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Hide captionWith just a hair under 1,000 competitors (and just as many horses), not to mention a calendar of events spanning 16 days (just one day shorter than the Olympics), the World Equestrian Games are anything but small. But exactly how large is this event? Here's a breakdown of the 2010 WEG, by the numbers:
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Hide captionNumber of competitors: 800. Pictured here, based on the number of hats visible, are 17 of those competitors, just a fraction of the U.S. team as it entered during the Opening Ceremony.
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Hide captionNumber of horses: 800. For the record, the horse pictured here (ridden by Hiroyuki Kitahara of Japan) is Why Me, which is a question the horse could ask of us with regard to why we chose him as the one horse to show here among 800. The answer: just because.
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Hide captionAmount of water used to clean said horses: a lot.
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Hide captionNumber of nations competing: 58. One of those nations, as evidenced by the colors of the flags and their helmets pictured here, is France.
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Hide captionNumber of tickets sold across 58 nations and all 50 U.S. states: more than 300,000. Two of those tickets, it should be noted, went to spectators who own Great Britain-themed cowboy hats.
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Hide captionNumber of meals served: 1.1 million. This number refers to number of meals eaten by humans during the World Equestrian Games, but we're showing a photo of horse consumption here because, quite frankly, they're eating a lot too.
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Hide captionSize of Kentucky Horse Park: 1,224 acres. For frame of reference on exactly how large that is, New York's Central Park is 843 acres. (Unfortunately, that fact does not seem to impress the horse pictured here.)
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Hide captionTotal amount of fencing: 40,000 feet (or nearly eight miles worth). A very small portion of said fencing (approximately 100 feet worth) can be seen in the background of this photo. You'll have to take our word for it that the remaining 39,900 feet of fencing all looks pretty standard.
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Hide captionNumber of signs around the park put up for informational purposes: 4,000. (Note: The sign pictured above is not actually at Kentucky Horse Park, and there are no alligator issues there -- that we know of.)
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Hide captionNumber of world titles to be awarded: 22. Here we see visual evidence of victory at the World Equestrian Games: Edward Gal of the Netherlands celebrating his victory in dressage.
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Hide captionNumber of sightings of William Shatner riding into the World Equestrian Games Opening Ceremony on a horse-drawn carriage: 1.
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Hide captionPercent control he appeared to have over the horse and carriage, based on his concerned facial expression: zero.
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