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After La Baule, no more champagne<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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France arrives in the Netherlands with the smile of a team that has just won at home. In La Baule, \u00c9douard Coup\u00e9rie\u2019s men claimed the Coupe des Nations Barri\u00e8re, the major highlight of the French Official, and recorded their first victory in the class since 2017. Perfect for confidence, dangerous for comfort. Sport loves resetting the counters just when you start looking at yourself in the mirror. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In Rotterdam, the challenge changes outfit. This is no longer just a major CSIO with standing and the habits of an old European monument. It is the third qualifying leg of the 2026 Longines League of Nations, scheduled for Friday 19 June, in a circuit where the road to Barcelona is already starting to narrow seriously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Germany in front, France chasing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In the overall standings, Germany leads the way with 190 points, ahead of France, second on 155 points, and Ireland, third on 150. In other words, Les Bleus are sitting nicely, but not yet stretched out on the sofa. Behind them, everyone is pushing. Rotterdam therefore looks less like a transition leg than a motorway toll: you pass cleanly, or you start counting your coins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the Dutch, the story is even spicier. The Oranje are playing at home, in a show that still carries that old-school big-occasion scent. Home advantage, yes. Home guarantee, no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n For the Belgians, Rotterdam is not just a GPS point somewhere between two canals and three polders. It is a Proustian madeleine. In 2019, it was here, at the European Championships, that Pieter Devos, Jos Verlooy, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Guery and Gr\u00e9gory Wathelet gave Belgium the first European team title in its show jumping history. Gold ahead of Germany and Great Britain. Not exactly a bar-counter anecdote.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Seven years later, the scenery is different, but the memory still sticks to the boots. For the Red Musketeers of jumping, returning to Rotterdam always means putting one foot back in the place where a generation shifted from dangerous team to winning nation. And in a Longines League of Nations where every point weighs like a vertical at the end of a course, that kind of memory can be fuel. Or added pressure. Often both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the French side, \u00c9douard Coup\u00e9rie has set the frame: Rotterdam must serve both to perform and to test certain horses in a 5* format. France won in Abu Dhabi, finished sixth in Ocala, and therefore arrives in the Netherlands with an interesting margin, but also a real need for confirmation. The selector may be moving forward with a cushion of points, but he knows that in this circuit, cushions can quickly turn into doormats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The format, meanwhile, forgives very little. Four riders in the first round, three scores counting. Then the best eight teams return for the second round with only three riders, and there, no joker. Every fault becomes a small bomb placed under the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two months before the big summer targets, Rotterdam also ticks another box: observation. Selectors watch, horses speak, and courses sort things out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n La Baule offered emotion. Rotterdam demands an answer. Less romantic, more mathematical. But in the Longines League of Nations, that is often where seasons are shaped: not in big speeches, but over a slightly wide plank, a heavy oxer, or a final vertical that decides who goes to Barcelona with certainty, and who boards the plane with a calculator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The full list of 5* riders at CHIO Rotterdam<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe : Peter Weinberg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe : Pedro Lacerda<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe : Edouard Couperie<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe : Di Lampard<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe : Otto Becker<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe : Jessica K\u00fcrten<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe : Marco Bergomi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe : Wout-Jan van der Schans<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe : Peter van der Waaij<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chef d\u2019\u00e9quipe : Robert Ridland<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n (Photo \u00a9 FEI\/Leanjo de Koster)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Une semaine apr\u00e8s La Baule, ses tribunes en fusion et sa Marseillaise bien rang\u00e9e dans la bo\u00eete \u00e0 souvenirs, les Bleus remettent le casque. Direction Rotterdam, son grand rectangle de sable, son Kralingse Bos et son Officiel des Pays-Bas qui n\u2019a rien d\u2019une promenade \u00e0 v\u00e9lo. Cette fois, la Coupe des nations compte pour la […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,371],"class_list":["post-50000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chio-rotterdam","tag-longines-league-of-nations"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sohorse.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/54602837119_a65b9570ff_k-2.jpg\")
And for the Belgians, a little madeleine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Rotterdam, a full-scale test<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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