Charlotte Dujardin has been suspended for one year after a video emerged of the double Olympic dressage champion whipping a horse repeatedly.
Dujardin withdrew from the Paris games after footage of a training session from four years ago showed her repeatedly whipping a student’s horse.
Referring to a video of a coaching session, she said what happened was “completely out of character” and “does not reflect how I train my horses or coach my pupils”.
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