PETA called on the International Olympic Committee on Friday to eliminate equestrian events from future Olympics citing cruelty to horses during the recent Tokyo Summer Games.
"The world was shocked when a visibly upset German pentathlon competitor, Annika Schleu, was filmed spurring and whipping the horse Saint Boy after he refused to enter the course," said PETA in a letter to IOC president Thomas Bach. In one Jet Set, a horse ridden by a Swiss competitor Robin Godel, was injured so badly during a cross-country event that he had to be euthanized while the another saw Irish rider Cian O’Connor force his mount Kilkenny to finish the course despite blood pouring from his nostrils.
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