Danish dressage champion suspended from national team after horse whipping video

Danish dressage rider Carina Cassøe Krüth has been provisionally suspended from the national team after a video of her whipping her horse became public.

Dressage riding is the discipline in which Carina Cassøe Krüth should have competed at the Olympic Games Photo: Alexandra Tziolis

Clara Meyer

Aug 20, 2024

Less than a week after the end of the Olympic Games in Paris, a video from 2022 of Danish dressage rider Carina Cassøe Krüth whipping her horse during a training session has surfaced on the platform X.The Danish Equestrian Federation (DRF) first imposed a fine of 5,000 kroner, but now the athlete has been preliminarily […]

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