Sport: Dressage — horseback riding where horse and rider perfo…

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Did you know? Dressage — horseback riding where horse and rider perform graceful movements — was long male-only. Lis Hartel of Denmark won silver in 1952 — the first woman EVER on a horse alongside men at the Olympics. She was also partially paralysed from polio and had to be helped onto the horse.

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Dressage — horseback riding where horse and rider perform graceful movements — was long male-only. Lis Hartel of Denmark won silver in 1952 — the first woman EVER on a horse alongside men at the Olympics. She was also partially paralysed from polio and had to be helped onto the horse.

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