Olympic equestrian team announcement 'a dream come true'

West Country Olympic medallists William Fox-Pitt, Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin have all been selected for Britain's equestrian team for the Rio Olympics.

Kitty King from Wiltshire has been selected for the eventing team for the first time. She'll be riding Ceylor L A N.

William Fox-Pitt at the Team GB Equestrian squad announcement in Wiltshire. Credit: PA

William Fox-Pitt, who's from Dorset, says he feels lucky to have recovered sufficiently from a serious head injury and induced coma at the end of 2015 to be selected for his fifth Olympics.

He also welled up with emotion when describing how much he owes to "his team" for helping him in his recovery.

Kitty King says her Olympic selection is a dream come true Credit: ITV News

Kitty King summed up her selection for a first Olympic Games as a dream come true and feels as though she's proved a point to school careers advisors who doubted her ambitions.

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