It wasn't gold but I'll settle for two bronzes!

What a night it was here in Shatin. The atmosphere in the stadium was electric and the huge floodlights dazzled and sparkled, really hammering home you were witnessing an Olympic final.

Lizzie Greenwood, BBC journalist

Sometimes we can spend too long talking of what could have been. Let's just all celebrate how a team of five Britons, two of whom were at their first ever Olympics, managed to come third in a competition that is always so hard to win.

The Olympic equestrian events are never clear-cut. There are so many horses and riders based around the world that we in Britain don't get to see compete.

William Fox-Pitt's "Ed" did his worst ever dressage test and Mary King told me "Cavvie" hasn't had a show-jumping fence down for two years. But the one who really surprised everyone was Tina Cook. It's been nine years since she last rode for Britain yet she looked like she's never been away.

Tina's been telling us all how good Miner's Frolic is for years. "This is my horse for the Olympics," she kept saying.

Well done Tina. It was also an incredible result that the individual gold went to Germany's Hinrich Romeike.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/lizzie-greenwoodhughes/

(China Daily 08/14/2008 page27)