Rider’s bid to reclaim Olympic place could unseat O’Connor

Show jumper Cian O’Connor’s bid for Olympic redemption hangs in the balance after Denis Lynch made a dramatic last-ditch bid to be reinstated in the Games.

Tipperary rider Mr Lynch stunned the equestrian world yesterday when he asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to consider the withdrawal of his Olympic nomination by Horse Sport Ireland, after his horse Lantinus was disqualified at the German Nations Cup show in Aachen.

His brother and manager Shay Lynch confirmed that, initially, an appeal had been submitted to Switzerland at 12pm yesterday, but efforts were being made last night to refile the application to CAS’s ad hoc division in London, the correct route for an Olympic appeal.