Modern pentathlon will get rid of its horse competitions after the Paris Games and bring in "American Ninja Warrior"-style obstacle courses for the 2028 Olympics. At the midpoint of the Olympics ...

The last fault wasn’t the horses fault, the rider kicked the vertical ... And none more so than Versailles for the pentathlon ...

Modern pentathlon tests athletes across five separate disciplines. Athletes must swim, fence, ride an unfamiliar horse through a show jumping course — they get just 20 minutes to get acquainted — and ...

The shorter format isn’t the only change coming to modern pentathlon: after the Paris Olympics, an obstacle course discipline will replace horse riding. But for now, the horses remain. Athletes ...

PARIS (AP) — The sport of modern pentathlon, a niche outlier at the Olympics, is getting rid of its horse competitions after ...

A German coach has been thrown out of the Olympics for appearing to punch a horse who was refusing to jump or trot during the modern pentathlon. Coach Kim Raisner was heard on German TV urging ...

The head of the global authority for the modern pentathlon has hit back at criticism of the horses involved in the women's competition at the Tokyo Olympics, blaming for poor performances on the ...

Modern pentathlon authorities have proposed a new set of rules to protect animals after a coach was disqualified from the Tokyo Olympics for punching a horse. Kim Raisner was thrown out of the ...

Horse racing was divided into separate competitions ... but breaking an opponents' fingers was acceptable. The pentathlon was the event from which the modern Olympics derives many of its events ...