Time to trot out today's Geo Answer. We were looking for a German city known for its annual equestrian festival.

The answer is Aachen, Germany.

And it's there that a retired corporate chief from Japan is preparing for this Summer's Olympic Games in Beijing.

Hiroshi Hoketsu is 66 years old. He was named today to Japan's Olympic Equestrian Team. That makes him Japan's oldest Olympic athlete. He last competed in the Olympics 44 years ago in Tokyo. Back then he says he couldn't have imagined a comeback:

Hoketsu: “I was thinking to quit riding within the next few years of the Olympics and what happened? What happened was after the Olympics, I went to graduate school in the US, I was totally out of riding, but very close to my school there was a small riding school and I happened to go there and started riding again there. (chuckles)"

Too old for show jumping, Hoketsu will compete in the dressage competition. He describes dressage as specialized figure skating --- but on a horse. He says horseback riding has been his life long love:

Hoketsu: “If you go riding a horse you really get out of everything, you think in a different way also it's a horse they don't talk you have to think what they're thinking and what you're doing is the correct thing or not I think that is a very good training for human being too.”