Great Britain's Michael Whitaker has withdrawn Cassionato from the remainder of the competition at the Olympic Games after the 11-year-old Holsteriner stallion (Cassini I—Perle Holstein, Quidam de Revel) began showing colic symptoms yesterday evening.

A thrilling result as three clean round boost the U.S. team into a tie with Brazil, Germany and the Netherlands on a 0-fault score after today’s Nations Cup round.

What you need to know about the first round of the team competition in Rio.

Rio de Janeiro—Aug. 15

You can forgive Charlotte Dujardin for bursting into tears during her interview following her Grand Prix freestyle performance on superhorse Valegro. After all, the two had just smashed their record at the last Olympics by nearly 4 percentage points to finish on a 93.85 percent.   

We checked in with several Olympic show jumpers about the ups and downs of Day 1.