Britain’s foremost horsewoman had hoped to become the nation’s most decorated female Olympian at this year’s Paris Games.
But three-time gold medallist and dressage star Charlotte Dujardin instead pulled out of the Olympics on Tuesday and was provisionally suspended from the sport pending an investigation, after she was accused of whipping a horse 24 times in one minute.
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