Six-time Olympic medalist Charlotte Dujardin has withdrawn from the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games following the emergence of a video exhibiting, what Dujardin calls, “an error in judgment.”
On Tuesday, July 23, the FEI provisionally suspended Dujardin pending the outcomes of their investigation.
The video, acquired by the FEI on July 22, 2024, was taken at a personal secure throughout a training session 4 years in the past. Submitted by an undisclosed complainant, it exhibits Dujardin partaking in coaching conduct that the FEI calls “opposite to the rules of horse welfare.”
Dujardin—who instantly acknowledged each that it was her that appeared within the video and that her conduct was inappropriate—requested to be provisionally suspended by the FEI on Tuesday pending the result of their investigation. She additionally voluntarily withdrew from the Paris Video games, and any subsequent competitions, till the FEI reaches its choice.
“What occurred was fully out of character and doesn’t mirror how I prepare my horses or coach my pupils, nevertheless there isn’t any excuse. I’m deeply ashamed and will have set a greater instance in that second,” Dujardin wrote in an announcement launched Tuesday on her social media channels.
I’m sincerely sorry for my actions and devastated that I’ve let everybody down, together with Staff GB, followers and sponsors.”
Dujardin added that she is going to totally cooperate with the FEI, the British Equestrian Federation, and British Dressage throughout the investigation course of.
This is able to have been the fourth Olympic look for Dujardin, one of many two most embellished British feminine Olympic athletes in historical past (alongside bicycle owner Laura Kenny). Aboard her longtime companion, the KWPN gelding, Valegro, Dujardin received three Olympic gold medals, the World Championship, and back-to-back Longines FEI World Cup Finals in 2014-2015.
Previous to her suspension, Dujardin was ranked fourth within the FEI Dressage World Rankings. She was slated to compete for Nice Britain in Paris aboard the 11-year-old KWPN gelding, Imhotep, alongside teammates Carl Hester & Fame and Charlotte Fry & Glamourdale.
Together with her suspension now in place, Durjardin might be changed by touring alternate Becky Moody and Jagerbomb.
