London: Britain ended Germany's domination of equestrian team dressage by winning the Olympic gold medal at Greenwich Park on Tuesday, adding to its first team show jumping gold in 60 years that it won a day earlier.
Germany took the silver and the Netherlands the bronze.
In dressage, the horse performs a carefully choreographed routine of movements that showcases the animal's training: prancing trots, extended strides, twirling pirouettes and a move called the flying change, which looks like the horse is skipping.
The competition received unusual attention in the 2012 games because the U.S. team featured Rafalca, a horse co-owned by the wife of the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney....
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London: Michael Jung of Germany, riding Sam, won the individual Olympic equestrian eventing gold medal. Sara Algotsson Ostholt of Sweden, aboard Wega, won the silver Tuesday while Sandra Auffarth of Germany, riding Opgun, won the bronze. The individual medals were decided after a second jumping round following the team show jumping phase. Germany won the team gold. Britain, with the queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips, captured the silver and New Zealand...
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London: Britain's royal rider could not keep Germany from winning their second consecutive Olympic gold medal in the equestrian team eventing on Tuesday, while Michael Phelps has a chance to show he still has the winning touch. Princes William and Harry, and William's wife Kate were among those cheering Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, Zara Phillips, as she competed in the show jumping course that is the third and final part...
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London: Zara Phillips is making her Olympic debut in equestrian eventing, and the gold-medal question is whether her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, will head out to Greenwich Park on Sunday to watch her compete in the dressage portion of the competition. On Saturday the queen and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh visited British team members in the athletes village in Olympic Park, chatted up other athletes in the dining...
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