“If I achieve that, it will be incredible,” Dujardin told Telegraph Sport ahead of the Olympics, before news of the investigation was made public.

“My dream was always just to get to the Olympics. I didn’t think there could be anything more special than that. Then in London, I thought this was not real: first Olympics, home crowd, double gold? Yeah, right.

“Now to think I could be at the very top, how surreal is that? I don’t see it as pressure, though. Like I always do, I just want to go out there and enjoy it. I mean, it’s not like every person gets to go to an Olympics.”

She won her last Olympic medal in the individual dressage competition in Tokyo three years ago and immediately looked forward to Paris.

- Telegraph UK