Charlotte Dujardin on CNN ft. Valegro

my name is Charlotte de Chardin and this is Villa gray we call him in the stable blueberry blueberry I'm a dressage rider I'm based in Gloucestershire in England together we won two gold medals at London 2012 Olympics blueberry I started riding when I was 3 or 4 years old my mum always had horses and my family didn't have lots of money or anything you know I literally did it through hard work and dedication people out there think you have to have lots of money to be able to do this for it just shows you after the Olympic stress I've has been described as dancing horses you know I get called the girl off the dancing horse so basically we have to train our horses to dance and do certain movements the winner is a winner because they do it in perfection it's how how well you can train your horse I ride about nine horses a day and I train for about 17 hours a day my superstitions are always wearing white lucky white breeches the most difficult movement for me to learn was the can to zigzag as it requires a lot of counting and preparation for each changeover of the half passes the leg rows worst how it would be being grumpy when he's hungry just like me Paul then I just fell in love with the leg row when I saw him he always wants to please you he goes in that arena to do his best he never lets you down he's with you all the way to find a horse that can cope with all the atmosphere as well is very difficult and he's my best friend and my partner and the fact that he is such a willing horse is what makes him really special I can't even tell you how it felt it was just undescribable it was it was to have 24,000 people sat in that stadium everybody couldn't hear a word you could it was Island the moment I finished my test it was light up right it was like everybody screaming shouting stamping it was unbelievable you know I hadn't I didn't know I had one and I looked up and there was this lady hanging over the stadium say you've done it you've done it and I'm looking and then I heard the crowd just going crazy and then I realized I had actually got the individual gold and for me that was just unbelievable I would love to do the world of Christian games obviously I haven't done a world of Christian games yeah so that's for me and austin-ji to get back to Leo in the dirt Donal Olympics

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Keywords: Dressage, Valegro, St-George, magazine, Charlotte Dujardin, edward gal, olympic, gold, Olympics, News, Horse, Games, Track, Track And Field Athletics (Sport), Horses, Riding, Equestrianism (Sport), Helen langenhanenberg, Adelinde Cornelissen, carl hester, hester, England, allemagne, BBC

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Length: 2min 59sec (179 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 17 2013