NEW DELHI: At the Paris Olympics, India will create a first when a country’s rider will straddle an equine at the Château de Versailles, the venue for staging two disciplines — dressage and jumping. It will be the first time that an Indian rider will be participating in the dressage event in the Olympics.
Previously, seven Indian riders have competed at the Summer Games – Jitendrajit Singh Ahluwalia, Hussain Singh, Mohammed Khan and Darya Singh (Moscow 1980), Indrajit Lamba (Atlanta 1996), Imtiaaz Anees (Sydney 2000) and Fouaad Mirza (Tokyo 2020) – but all in eventing disciplines.
