Powerhouse Germany retain dressage gold
Equestrian powerhouse Germany comfortably won the dressage team gold medal on Tuesday, with a trio of riders led by world number one Isabell Werth and also featuring Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, who set an Olympic record, and Dorothee Schneider.
LONDON: Equestrian powerhouse Germany comfortably won the dressage team gold medal on Tuesday, with a trio of riders led by world number one Isabell Werth and also featuring Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, who set an Olympic record, and Dorothee Schneider. Germany has won every Olympic dressage team gold since 1984, apart from 2012 when Britain snatched it on home turf.
Already the most decorated Olympian in her sport, Werth got her 11th medal competing on mare Bella Rose to Ludwig van Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
"I am totally happy about Bella," she said after her ride. "I don't know how she could have done better".
Werth told reporters the choice of the music, which also serves as the European Union anthem, was in no way meant as a snub to her competitors from Britain, which voted in 2016 to leave the EU.
Schneider, 52, stepped on the top spot of the podium on Tuesday just weeks after a traumatic accident in which the horse she was riding died underneath her and she broke a collar bone.
The United States won silver competing with two German-born riders Sabine Schut-Kery and Steffen Peters, alongside Adrienne Lyle. Agencies
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