Team GB and the three-time Olympic champion have become embroiled in controversy.
Charlotte Dujardin=has withdrawn from the Paris Olympics The Olympic Games should be an equestrian free event amid the horse abuse scandal involving Charlotte Dujardin, according to animal rights group
. Team GB superstar Dujardin has been provisionally suspended by equestrian’s governing body with immediate effect after a video from four years ago emerged showing her making ‘an error of judgement’. The fallout from the controversy will have far reaching and immediate consequences for Team GB, as well their three-time gold medalist, but in the long-term animal rights group
are adamant that equestrian events are outdated and should have no place in the Games. ‘The message to the International Olympic Committee should be clear by now: remove equestrian events from the Olympic Games,’ a statement read. ‘Yet again, an Olympic rider has been caught on video abusing a horse to force the animal to behave in an entirely unnatural way, simply for her own glory. ‘Horses don’t volunteer – they can only submit to violence and coercion.
’s motto reads, in part, that ‘animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way’.’ Dujardin, meanwhile, had decided to pull out of all competition while the International Federation for Equestrian Sports investigates the incident.
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