They said it best
“I TOLD Charlotte on the way down here that some people wish it would happen, some people think it will happen and you’re going to make it happen”
Carl Hester on motivational words to Charlotte Dujardin before her grand prix special
“Dammit I don’t care! He was a really good boy and I can’t be more pleased”
Nathalie Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein on not quite being able to secure bronze for Denmark
“I’m really happy I decided to come here and help the team get a medal – this is a colour I didn’t have yet”
Anky van Grunsven on her ninth Olympic medal, a bronze, as she retired 2008 Olympic champion Salinero
“I just wanted that gold medal so badly and didn’t want to let anyone down. My legs were like jelly”
Charlotte Dujardin on her grand prix special
“Shopping. I love to shop”
US rider Tina Konyot, 50, on what exercise she does to stay fit
“I give a big A-plus to London 2012”
US rider Steffen Peters
“I was aquaplaning in the saddle by the end of the test”
Anna Kasprzak on riding her grand prix in torrential rain
“Going into the arena was like a child on his first day at school – I had to take Artemis by the hand and say, ‘It’ll be fine, we’ll go together’”
Richard Davison his grand prix
“Adelinde’s huge power and expression were very impressive, but it needed a little more lightness and self-carriage. Parzival crosses his jaw sometimes, which affects the submission marks. Charlotte’s had a little more harmony and self-carriage, if perhaps not quite as much power and expression today. The decision was for harmony”
Judge Stephen Clarke on the freestyle scores
“Let’s be clear, I very much wanted to win gold, but my world hasn’t collapsed now that it’s silver”
Adelinde Cornelissen on the freestyle result
“He rose to the occasion – he felt awesome and to be on the podium again was huge for me”
Laura Bechtolsheimer on individual bronze with Mistral Højris