British Eventing president carries Olympic torch

Jane Holderness Roddam.

British Eventing president as well as gilded medal winning Olympian Jane Holderness Roddam was a purpose of the Olympic Torch relay inward Great Britain this week.

Holderness Roddam carried the torch through Shurdington during the Bristol to Cheltenham road on May 23.

The 64 twelvemonth one-time from Chippenham was honoured to behave the flame, “I felt rattling flattered to last chosen to stand upwards for the Equus caballus world, as well as inward item the eventers. It was swell fun as well as I thoroughly appreciated it.”

Holderness Roddam passed the torch to principal schoolhouse instructor Emma Jenkinson. The flame went on later to a packed-out Cheltenham Racecourse where fellow British eventer Zara Phillips carried it aboard her World as well as European gilded medal winning ride Toytown.

Phillips, who plans to continue the torch equally a memento inward her stable yard told The Telegraph, “It is unbelievable. Actually I am all the same shaking, it was an unbelievable experience. It was quite dodgy at the beginning, simply nosotros got there.”

So far thousands receive got flocked to grab a glimpse of the torch equally it passes through their neighbourhoods as well as Shurdington was no exception, Holderness Roddam said: “There was a fantastic turn-out as well as buzz. People were fifty-fifty hanging out of trees as well as sitting on roof tops all the agency through! There were then many people nosotros couldn’t plough the double-decker around as well as had to get on for an extra mile; everyone was then behind it.”

Holderness Roddam is specially excited for this summertime at Greenwich Park, “The build-up to an Olympics is an amazing fourth dimension as well as it volition sure accept me dorsum 44 years to United Mexican United States City.”

Confident inward the British eventers as well as selectors Holderness Roddam acknowledged that 2012 has been a specially hard ane for the sport inward the UK.

“The weather condition has kiboshed then many people’s chances as well as ane or 2 on the fringes won’t larn to show themselves inward the same way. However, in that place were challenges inward ’68 too equally 2 of our riders had never ridden their horses inward contest before! I’m sure the selectors volition brand the correct choices as well as I wishing them all the rattling best of luck.”

 

 

 

 

 

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