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Published 16:19 23 Jul 2024 BST
Updated 16:29 23 Jul 2024 BST

Team GB’s joint-most decorated female Olympian, Charlotte Dujardin has pulled out of Paris 2024 after a video emerged showing her “making an error of judgement”.
The six-time dressage medallist is now under investigation from the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) and the British Equestrian Federation and British Dressage will ‘withdraw from competitions while this process takes place.”
The 39-year-old said: “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," she said in statement.
"I am deeply ashamed and should have set a better example in that moment."
Dujardin said her actions were "filmed four years ago" and that she is "devastated to have let everyone down.”
Dujardin won team and individual gold medals at the London 2012 games on her horse Valegro and the pair went on to win individual gold and team silver four years later in Rio.
On a different horse, Gio, Dujardin won two bronze medals in Tokyo and was set to compete again in the individual and team dressage events on her new horse Imhotep.
It is unclear what the video shows but the FEI are taking Dujardin’s actions seriously.
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