‘The best day of our lives’
AS Graham Fletcher pointed out in his H&H column, Britain’s showjumpers have so often been the underachievers compared with the other equestrian disciplines when it comes to Olympic Games – but not this time.
Nick Skelton spearhearded the effort, but every rider contributed to the team gold, with Ben Maher and Scott Brash pulling off precious clears and Peter Charles hitting form just when it mattered most, in the jump-off for gold.
It was a case of rebounding from glory to heartbreak as the individual competition rolled around, when one fence down denied Nick and Big Star a second gold, the “clean slate” format of the individual final working against
