Video / NZ HeraldGerman pentathlete Annika Schleu maintains she did nothing wrong after coming under fire for her treatment of a horse at the Olympics. "The hatred I encountered on social media has masked the disappointment about the missed medal," she told Germany's Die Zeit newspaper after the Games. Show jumping is arguably the most difficult component of modern pentathlon because athletes don't ride their own horses. Cuoco, who starred on hit TV show The Big Bang Theory, had no sympathy for Schleu or Raisner, though, and hit out on social media at the weekend. The 35-year-old is married to horse trainer and equestrian Karl Cook, is an equestrian herself and met her husband at an equestrian event.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 18, 2021 02:15 UTC