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Outstanding gold-medal performance from Britain’s oldest Olympian, who’s fought off not just age but plenty of – ahem – ‘mileage’ too!
The GB team have conjured up a great training feat with both Big Star and Valegro (Charlotte Dujardin’s dressage gold-medaller), as both won at London 2012 when aged 9 and 10 respectively and have clearly been tuned to perfection to win again four years later.
To steal that old Yorkshire thing: if Warwickshire were a country, we’d now be in 50th place in the medal table.
Mike
I was mesmerised by Valegro. Missed the showjumping but great result. Gold medal for father, how long before gold cup for son.
I didn’t think anything could top Charlotte and Valegro but Nick and Big Star yesterday was just incredible, and well deserved after the horse jumped like a boss at London 2012 only to narrowly miss out on an individual medal in th final round.
And he did it the hard way in the jump off – first to go of the six riders.
Well done Warwickshire. Only 44 years on from our last individual medalist Ann Moore from that part of the world too. An amusing contribution from Yorkshire in this event I thought
If anyone missed this here’s the replay:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36691138Big Star, the Sprinter of show jumping :)
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