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As the Dutch superstar 'passaged' and 'piaffed' her way around the arena to her specially-composed music, we all knew she was going to take the title for a third time.

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The victory makes the first person ever to win the individual Olympic dressage title three times. If she wasn't before, Anky is now officially an equestrian great.

was inevitably second. Her test was still excellent although once again Satchmo spooked in the middle causing lots of oohs and ahhs to come from the stands.

But now let's talk about the real story, which for me was of 73.85% with an overall tally of 72.345% for seventh place. The 33-year-old did us all proud, and her achievement was made all the more impressive by the news that six weeks ago she was in hospital having major abdominal surgery as a cyst was removed from one of her ovaries. She only started riding again while Lancet was in quarantine.

Emma also revealed afterwards that her special stallion is scared of loud music! He obviously doesn't mind '' and '', which featured heavily in her test. The music was all pretty good actually. One rider used ! Dressage to music is just a good watch and more people should check it out.

They were talking on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 5 Live yesterday about how unfair it is if you're the fourth best runner in Kenya and therefore never likely to run at an Olympics.

It's the same in dressage.

There must be loads of and who could easily qualify for the Olympics, but you're only allowed three riders per team (last time it was four).

So are the Olympics a true reflection of who's the best in the world?

Well, maybe not entirely but one thing's for sure - we know we saw the top two dressage riders last night. Anyway, that's what the Olympic spirit is all about.

Where else would you have in the show-jumping followed by the world number one?

Talking of the world number one, ... she's staying in our hotel along with .

They walked past me this morning in the reception and she is absolutely tiny! I'd say no more than five foot tall, appearing particularly mini next to her huge brother-in-law, Ludger.

They must be feeling a bit nervous about the individual show-jumping final. I would imagine there's just a bit of pressure on them to produce a gold medal, particularly after their disappointing team performance. No medal for Germany in the show-jumping would be a big shock. Let's hope it's countered by a medal for Britain!