Olympics 2024 LIVE: News and build-up to Paris as dressage star Charlotte Dujardin withdraws over leaked video

Charlotte Dujardin will take no part in the Olympics and has been provisionally suspended for six months by equestrian’s governing body with immediate effect after she was filmed “engaging in conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare” four years ago.

The three-time Olympic champion had earlier pulled of Paris 2024 due to a video that shows the dressage rider “making an error of judgement during a coaching session”. She is alleged to have repeatedly hit the legs of a student’s horse with a whip while on the ground.

The International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) has now confirmed that it has provisionally suspended Dujardin from all competition for a period of six months while it continues its investigation into the footage.

Charlotte Dujardin was the golden girl of British equestrian who went from sporting unknown to Olympic champion in barely a year.

But six medals and three Olympics into her remarkable journey, Dujardin’s world has fallen apart.

Her withdrawal from the Paris Olympics has come barely a week before she was due to compete after a video emerged from four years ago showing her making what she described as “an error of judgement” during a coaching session.

Charlotte Dujardin has pulled out of the Olympics due to a video that shows the dressage rider “making an error of judgement during a coaching session” four years ago, for which she is now under investigation.

Dujardin, a three-time Olympic champion and one of the stars of Team GB, was bidding to become Britain’s most decorated female Olympian at this summer’s Games in Paris.

The 39-year-old said she is “deeply ashamed” and the incident “was completely out of character and does not reflect how I train my horses or coach my pupils”.

The Boston Celtics guard is fresh off winning his first NBA championship and the award of Finals MVP, but he was not picked as part of national team director Grant Hill’s original squad.

Australian Olympics chief Anna Meares has said that a convicted rapist would not be picked for the country’s Olympics team, after Steven van de Velde was named in the Netherlands’ beach volleyball squad.

Van de Velde, now aged 29, was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 after pleading guilty to three counts of rape against a child when he was 19. He met his 12-year-old victim on Facebook, and travelled from Amsterdam to Milton Keynes, where the incident happened in 2014.

Van de Velde, who was allowed to serve his sentence in the Netherlands, was behind bars for just 12 months of the four years and then resumed his career in volleyball, competing in international tournaments since 2018 and eventually being selected for the Netherlands squad for Paris 2024 in June.

He is yet to turn 30 but Jack Laugher insists he is revelling in the role of an “old soul” as prepares to head into his fourth Olympics in Paris.

Having emerged unscathed from a tumultuous Tokyo cycle, the 2016 diving gold medallist hopes a wiser approach will pay dividends alongside his new synchro diving partner Anthony Harding, who will be competing at his first Games in the French capital.

“I feel like I give that fatherly feel to the team,” laughed Laugher, a relative veteran who made his Olympic debut in London 2012 at the age of 17, where he failed to reach the semi-final stage.

Noah Lyles has revealed that he is bidding to win four gold medals on the track at Paris 2024 and do “something that hasn’t been done”.

The American swept the sprint titles at the World Championships in Budapest last year, taking the individual 100 and 200 metres crowns and featuring in the USA’s victorious sprint relay quartet.

But many sports have been introduced since the marathon at the first modern Games in Athens in 1896.

Tokyo 2020, which eventually took place in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, welcomed three new sports to the Olympic family.

Paris will provide a first outing for breaking, while other sports will expand the number of events with on show.

Here’s a look at breaking and what’s new for Paris 2024:

The most decorated gymnast of all time, Simone Biles, returns to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris after addressing mental health concerns.

Team Ireland golfer Shane Lowry has made clear his intention to win a medal at the Olympics this summer.

The 37-year-old finished sixth at the British Open but is aiming high in Paris.

“Onwards and upwards and onto the Olympics and try to win a medal for Ireland and get on from there,” Lowry said.

“I’m playing good golf and I’d love to win a medal. Obviously I’d want it to be gold, but I’d probably take either three. I’m very excited about it.

“Obviously Le Golf National is going to be a great test and a great course and that medal isn’t going to be around your neck until you’re finished on that 18th green at that place.”