During the second round of the team competition, the Surrey rider and his home-bred Equine America Billy Diamo uncharacteristically crashed through the oxer at fence five. William was unseated and stretchered out of the arena with what turned out to be a broken ankle.

This ends all hopes William had of being picked to ride for Great Britain at his first ever Olympic Games.

“I’m 100% out — I reckon I’ll be out for about three months as I’ve been told they have to operate on it,” William told H&H.

“I went to a Polish hospital after the fall and was told that they’d have to operate and I’d have to have it plastered right up to my thigh. I wasn’t too keen on that idea, so I got them to plaster it up temporarily and got on a plane back to England.

source: Horse & Hound