WEG 2006 Aachen Update

The World Equestrian Games cross-country course gets shape.

"After we have planned so intensively for a year now", said Frank Kemperman, managing director of the organising Aachen-Laurensberger Rennvereins e.V. (ALRV), "the course is marked in the meantime. Finally, we see something different than the maps." About 2.000 dowels were hammered into the ground by Rüdiger Schwarz and his co-workers in order to mark the around 6,5 km long and 10 metres wide course. For one year, the Chef de Parcours of the cross-country course for the FEI World Equestrian Games Aachen 2006 has checked the premises out with respect to the different weather influences.

The early preparation guarantees that the ground will not only withstand the endurance horses and riders, but as well the carriages of the drivers.

Besides the endurance riders, the four-in-hand drivers will also start in the valley situated directly behind the show grounds. "Even if it rains cats and dogs four weeks before the tournament, we should not get any problems with the ground", says Rüdiger Schwarz. "Our thanks go to the countrymen in the Soers", says Frank Kemperman, "without their co-operation we could not have organised the competitions there."