Charlotte Dujardin, one of the world’s most renowned dressage riders, will not compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris after video footage emerged showing the British athlete repeatedly whipping a horse during a training session.
In the video, Dujardin, who has won six Olympic equestrian medals — three gold, a silver and two bronze — repeatedly strikes a horse being ridden by another person as an onlooker laughs.
The video, released by Stephan Wensing, a Dutch lawyer who specializes in equine matters, and published by several British news outlets, surfaced a day after Dujardin announced that she was pulling out of the Paris Games, which begin Friday, for what she said was an "error of judgment during a coaching session.”
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