British rider Charlotte Dujardin suddenly withdrew from the dressage event – Libération

2024-07-23 20:56:14

He mentioned a “judgment error” that appeared on a video that dated back four years. The Telegraph reports acts of abuse on a horse. She may have become Britain’s most decorated female Olympic athlete.

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But what could be “this error of judgment” that emerged in the video published by the British rider Charlotte Dujardin, three times Olympic dressage champion, to explain this Tuesday July 23 that she gave the Olympics Paris left where a medal, of a metal will do. Is it the most bejeweled British athlete in history? He did not specify it in the press release published on his social networks

“A four-year-old video has emerged of me making a mistake in judgment during a training session,” he said. The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) has opened an investigation and I have decided to withdraw from all competitions, including the Paris Olympics, while the process takes place,” in addition to the 39 years I have taught horses. me or how I coach my students, but there is no excuse. I was very ashamed, and I should have set a good example at that time. I am sincerely sorry for my actions and sad to let everyone down, including Team GB, fans and sponsors. I will co-operate fully with the FEI, the British Equestrian Federation and British Dressage during their investigations, and will not comment until the process is complete.” he continued.

If the site Guard or those BBC be careful, know that he has not known famous pictures, the telegraph is affirmative sure enough we see the rider kicking the horse in the legs several times.

Dujardin won dressage, individual and team gold in London in 2012, then another individual Olympic title in Rio in 2016 where he took team silver. During Tokyo-2020, he won bronze in individual and team events. A seventh medal in Paris would have allowed rider Laura Kenny to win

In recent years, Olympic and equestrian authorities have taken an increasingly hard line on alleged abuses in the treatment of animals. In 2020, pictures of German rider Annika Schleu beating the horse Saint Boy in a modern pentathlon went around the world. The German trainer reined in the horse. The event led to the withdrawal of horse riding from the Pentathlon after the Paris Games and its replacement by the obstacle course.