Equestrian world must learn from others or risk losing ‘social licence’
Threats to equestrian sport’s social licence to operate (SLO), and what could be done to protect it, have been reviewed in a recently published paper. This is important because loss of SLO can lead to regulation or banning of an activity and equestrian sport’s SLO is already being questioned in some quarters. For example, the decision to remove equestrianism from the modern pentathlon after the next Olympic Games came about directly due to public reaction to the showjumping phase of the sport at the Tokyo Olympics.