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The video which led to Charlotte Dujardin’s withdrawal from the Olympic Games has emerged. It shows Dujardin, who is one medal away from becoming Great Britain’s most decorated female Olympian ever, using a whip on a horse in a training environment. With the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) investigating the incident, Dujardin announced she...

Paris-bound Olympians Heather Cowell and Lauren Torley have signed new contracts with Harlequins. Winger Cowell, 28, will enter her seventh season at Quins after representing Team GB’s rugby sevens in France. Cowell was part of Harlequins’ title-winning side in 2020-21. Full-back Torley, 24, will enter her third season at the club after joining from DMP...

Sport Event Start Time (ET) Channel/Stream Badminton Men’s, Women’s, Mixed Singles, Doubles: Group Play (Part 1) 2:30 a.m. Peacock, USA (starting at 4:30 a.m.), Fubo (starting at 4:30 a.m.) Handball Men’s Group A: Spain vs. Slovenia 3:00 a.m. Peacock Rowing Single, Double, Quadruple Sculls Heats 3:00 a.m. USA, Peacock, Fubo Volleyball Men’s Pool Play: Japan...

Timeline of Andy Murray’s career The 2024 Olympics begins today with the rugby sevens and football competitions ahead of a unique opening ceremony on Friday night along the River Seine. In total, 16 days of action will take place after the ceremony, with triumphant athletes on the podium to be handed medals made out of...

Combat sports is all Reid, 26, has ever known. She started kickboxing aged five with her dad as her coach. “Unfortunately kickboxing is not an Olympic sport and I transitioned into boxing at 14,” she says. “I had my first boxing bout at the European championships when I got a gold, as a junior.” But...

Georgina Brayshaw, 30, Rowing Event: Women’s Quadruple Sculls When: 27 July (heats), 31 July (final) A first-time Olympian who was left in a coma as a teenager following a horse riding accident. Brayshaw, who was paralysed down the left side of her body for a year, began rowing in her second year of university. An...

PARIS — Days before Opening Ceremonies, the Paris Olympics have their first scandal in bizarre form: A decorated British dressage star withdrew from the Games shortly before the international equestrian governing body provisionally suspended her for “conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare” depicted on video. Charlotte Dujardin, whose six Olympic medals tie her...

Although the ban remains provisional while the FEI investigates, Dujardin, who has six Olympic medals in total, has said she will “withdraw from all competition while this process takes place”. “What happened was completely out of character and does not reflect how I train my horses or coach my pupils, however there is no excuse,”...