Charlotte Dujardin withdraws from Olympics, banned for six months over four-year-old video

Three-time Olympic gold medal winner Charlotte Dujardin has shockingly announced she has pulled out of the Paris Games.

Dujardin won team and individual gold medals at the London 2012 Games on horse Valegro.

Britain's joint-most decorated female Olympian Charlotte Dujardin has pulled out of the Paris Games after a video emerged of her hitting a horse.

Equestrian medal favourite Charlotte Dujardin of Team GB has announced her shock withdrawal from Paris 2024 on the eve of the Games.

Charlotte Dujardin, winner of three gold, a silver and two bronze medals in Olympic equestrian events for Britain, will now serve a six-month ban imposed by the sport's governing body, the FEI.