Jamie Hocking at the FEI Sports Forum 2018

The seventh edition of the FEI Sports Forum 2018 was held in Lausanne (SUI) this week. Youth was the focal point of the first day of the FEI Sports Forum, with a dynamic panel of eight successful youth athletes from around the world, including Australian vaulter Jamie Hocking. This new generation represented all disciplines and debated a wide range of topics during three separate sessions.

Jamie underlined the need to harness profile opportunities in media and social media to help with the climb to the top, and in Vaulting where equestrian careers are considerably shorter than in other equestrian disciplines: “I have random people in my life now saying I am famous, thanks to the recent profile. We need advice on how to take advantage of this now in a digital age.” 

After attending this major event on the international equestrian calendar, Jamie shared: "The FEI forum was a great opportunity for me to take a look at how we do things in Equestrian sports and come up with ideas on how to improve different aspects regarding youth. Also great to get in and meet a lot of the people that run equestrian sports from all over the world and have them listen to our thoughts and ideas as panellists."

This was the first time in the seven-year history of the FEI Sports Forum that the multi-faceted subject of youth has been tackled in such an in-depth manner. 

The replay is now available to view at http://inside.fei.org/fei/fei-sports-forum-2018-sessions-hub