This coming Friday will see Team Europe battle with Team Americas in the Riders Masters Cup at the five-star Longines Masters of Paris meeting in France.

Ireland’s new show jumping team manager Rodrigo Pessoa maintains that Irish teams have been underperforming and says that his goal is to transfer good individual performances to better team effect.

RUFUS, the horse of show jumper Rodrigo Pessoa, has tested positive for a banned substance at the Olympics, bringing to six the number of horses to have done so.

Surrounded by palm trees and azalea bushes on a lush Brazilian estate, Greek billionaire Athina Roussel Onassis will say ‘I do’ to an Olympic athlete on Saturday in what Brazilians expect will be one of the most lavish weddings in years.