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Dujardin dumped as ambassador for charity after horse-whipping storm
Move signals ceasefire in civil war that had broken out in the game
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN has been dropped as an ambassador for horse welfare charity Brooke amid a horse-whipping controversy engulfing the British Olympian.
It comes after she was provisionally suspended by equestrians’ governing body and she withdrew from the Paris Olympics over a video from four years ago showing her making what she described as “an error of judgement” during a coaching session.
The video shows Dujardin repeatedly hitting a student’s horse with a whip from the ground.
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