It came less than two weeks after Dujardin, the star of British dressage, withdrew on the eve of the games and was provisionally suspended by equestrian’s world governing body after footage emerged of her “excessively” whipping a horse.
“In a lot of ways, the fact I came into it at the last minute was perhaps the best thing that could have happened to me because I didn’t have time to spend weeks getting myself into a stress about it,” she said.
The debutant was full of praise for her horse Jagerbomb and her support team who helped get them both ready for the games.
A surprise party was held last week when they returned from Paris, with her drinking “the odd Jagerbomb, maybe one or two”, she laughed.
