A dressage trainer claimed Charlotte Dujardin has “many enemies” as she denied suspicions in equestrianism that she is the whistleblower behind the horse-whipping video.
Alicia Dickinson confirmed she had a business relationship with Dujardin, which ended after the lesson in which the Olympic champion hit out at the horse 24 times.
However, Dickinson, an Australian who lives in London with her husband and daughter, claims she has been “thrown under the bus” but that she did not raise the alarm.
“Charlotte has many enemies,” Dickinson told The Sun newspaper on her doorstep in Battersea. “It could have been anyone but I got the backlash.”
Stephan Wensing, the Dutch lawyer who alerted authorities on Monday to the video, had also separately denied to Telegraph Sport that Ms Dickinson was his mystery client.
Dickinson, who is understood to have Dutch ties, was identified by The Sun as one of key three key witnesses in the saga. Investigations by Telegraph Sport have established definitively that Dickinson was not filming the footage, which was instead taken by the mother of the 19-year-old English student who could be seen in the video on horseback.
According to The Sun, Dickinson has told friends she has been “thrown under the bus” after her hope of becoming Britain’s most decorated Olympian were dashed. Dujardin, however, has not commented on the matter at all since pulling out of the Olympics on Monday.
“I am not the whistleblower,” said Dickinson. “I...
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