Dujardin rides into storm after golden ascent in dressage

The chance to make history in Paris has gone before it started, in the wake of alleged mistreatment ofa horse

- Rachel Hall

Charlotte Dujardin called her 2018 memoir The Girl on the Dancing Horse, seeming to acknowledge she had almost, but not quite, become a household name. There was a chance that profile could have stepped up again after the Paris Olympics as she targeted a medal that would have put her top of the list of female British Olympians.

Her chance at making history has gone before the Games have even started. The 39-year-old has withdrawn after a video taken four years ago emerged, which she said showed her making "an error of judgment" by allegedly mistreating a horse during a coaching session. She has been provisionally banned for six months by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI).