The whistleblower who released a video that appears to show Charlotte Dujardin 'excessively' whipping a horse is 'not celebrating', says her lawyer.
The whistleblower who released a video that appears to show Charlotte Dujardin "excessively" whipping a horse during a training session did so in a bid to "save dressage", says her lawyer.
After her withdrawal from the Olympics, the 39-year-old was provisionally suspended by equestrian's governing body the FEI, which received the footage on Monday. "Our whole ethos is around kindness and compassion to horses, and to see the opposite of this from someone with such a high profile is beyond disappointing," it said.On Tuesday Dujardin said the video was "filmed four years ago", but Wensing said it was from two and a half years ago.
"Later on, was thinking 'this is not OK'. She had spoken with several people in the profession and they all warned her 'don’t fight'.
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