Three-time Olympic dressage gold medallist Charlotte Dujardin has been banned for one yr and fined 10,000 Swiss Francs (£8,886) for “excessively” whipping a horse.
Video footage emerged in July of Dujardin repeatedly hanging the horse with a protracted whip round its legs, simply days earlier than the beginning of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Dujardin’s worldwide ban, handed out by the FEI – the world governing physique of equestrian sports activities – is backdated to the beginning of her provisional suspension and he or she shall be eligible to compete once more from July 2025.
British Equestrian and British Dressage have additionally reciprocated the a suspension, stopping Dujardin from competing in nationwide competitors or coaching occasions throughout the identical interval.
Dujardin was provisionally suspended on 23 July for “participating in conduct opposite to the ideas of horse welfare”, sooner or later after the FEI obtained a video exhibiting Dujardin excessively whipping a horse throughout a coaching session at a non-public steady.
The FEI stated the footage of the coaching session didn’t represent every other rule violations and added that there haven’t been any additional complaints raised in opposition to Dujardin’s conduct because the video emerged.
