Saint Boy repeatedly refused to leap, leaving rider Annika Schleu in tearsDates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8Protection: Watch reside on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Pink Button and on-line; Hear on BBC Radio 5 Stay, Sports activities Further and Sounds; reside textual content and video clips on BBC Sport web site and app.
A German coach has been thrown out of the Olympics for showing to punch a horse who was refusing to leap or trot in the course of the fashionable pentathlon.
Coach Kim Raisner was heard on German TV urging tearful athlete Annika Schleu to “actually hit” the horse whereas she struggled to manage Saint Boy in the course of the showjumping spherical of Friday’s girls’s occasion.
Schleu had been main the occasion earlier than the equestrian, the place athletes are given simply 20 minutes to bond with a horse they’ve by no means ridden.
Fashionable pentathlon’s governing physique, the UIPM, mentioned it had reviewed video footage that appeared to point out Raisner – who competed on the 2004 Olympics in fashionable pentathlon – putting the horse together with her fist.
“Her actions have been deemed to be in violation of the UIPM competitors guidelines, that are utilized to all recognised fashionable pentathlon competitions together with the Olympic Video games,” the governing physique mentioned in an announcement.
“The UIPM Govt Board [EB] has given a black card to the Germany crew coach Kim Raisner, disqualifying her from the rest of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games.
“The EB determination was made in the present day on the Tokyo Stadium earlier than the resumption of the lads’s fashionable pentathlon competitors.”
Saint Boy is just not among the many horses resulting from be ridden throughout Saturday’s males’s fashionable pentathlon competitors.
The horse cleared simply 4 fences earlier than crashing into the fifth after which repeatedly refused to leap, eliminating Schleu with zero factors because it had completed earlier to a different competitor, Gulnaz Gubaydullina.
