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Alec Lochore and the Art of Building an Olympic Cross-Country Course

by Danielle Henson/US Equestrian Communications Dept. | February 9, 2026

2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games Cross Country Course Designer, Alec Lochore. (Photo courtesy of Alec Lochore/Musketeer Events) When Alec Lochore first walked the grounds of Santa Anita Park as a prospective Olympic venue, he wasn’t imagining himself as the designer of the 2028 Olympic cross-country course. “I’d been to the venue before,” Lochore said. “I understood the challenges the course designer was going to face, but I wasn’t there thinking, ‘What

Different Arena, Same Art Form: A Cross-Sport Look at Ice Dancing and Dressage

by Danielle Henson/US Equestrian Communications Dept. | February 3, 2026

At first glance, Olympic figure skating and Grand Prix dressage freestyles appear to exist in entirely different worlds: one is performed on ice, the other on arena footing. Yet at the highest levels of sport, the similarities between the two disciplines become clear. Both demand extraordinary technical precision, athleticism, musicality, and an almost intangible quality of harmony between athlete and partner. Few people understand this parallel more intimately than Laura Roberts, Managing