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August 7, 2012

London Games Shut Up the Doubters

Tom Chivers, Daily Telegraph

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So we've broken our gold-medal tally from 2008, with Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer, Richard Davison and Charlotte Dujardin's win in the dressage. (That's the faintly silly horse-dancing thing, but they all count, and anyway apparently it's really good.) And I have to ask: where are all the Olympic grumps now?

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