'It is the culmination of years of dreaming'
Carl Hester, from Newent:
"It's a combination of so many years of dreaming about it and it finally happened. Those girls are cool customers and Charlotte is unbelievable.
"The horse (Dujardin's mount Valegro) is also unbelievable, you can see he's the best horse in the world.
"We've finally won it and I said to Charlotte on the way here, I have a little saying for her, 'some people wish it will happen, some people think it will happen and you are going to make it happen.'
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"That's the sort of thing I can say to her. It would frighten a lot of people but she just takes it."
Charlotte Dujardin, from Newent:
"I was a bit more nervous going in because I just wanted that gold medal.
"I didn't want to let anyone down, and I like that test, so I knew I could do well in it.
"It's surreal because obviously I only started in January last year and I got a gold medal at the Europeans, and it was the ultimate dream to get here and ride here."
Laura Bechtolsheimer, from Ampney St Peter, near Cirencester:
"To come into that arena with that atmosphere for Alf (her horse, Mistral Hojris) is a pretty big ask, and there were maybe little mistakes where he wasn't concentrating.
"It felt like he was going for it in his extension, and his piaffe passage felt fantastic. That makes me feel very emotional, very proud of him."
Team Dressage results: Gold, GB; Silver, Germany; Bronze, Netherlands.
Individual dressage: Gold, Charlotte Dujardin GB, Silver: Adelinde Cornelissen (Holland); Bronze: LauraBechtolsheimer.
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