Martin Fuchs on his horse Clooney.
The show jumping horse Clooney slipped in a pasture and sustained an injury to his right shoulder. The Olympic rider worries.
The Olympic Games in Tokyo had been exhausting, and Swiss co-favorite Martin Fuchs and his horse Clooney had missed a medal in show jumping – both individually and in a team. Now it was time for Clooney to recover from the stress, and it happened. As Reiter Fuchs writes on Instagram, the horse slipped in a pasture. Clooney sustained an injury to his right shoulder.
The mold is now being treated in a Zurich hospital, Fuchs continues. The 29-year-old also writes that they want to try to enable Clooney to retire in a pasture. This indicates that he will most likely never compete again with the 15-year-old Clooney. “Pray for Clooney,” writes Fuchs.
Fuchs had some successes with Clooney. He finished second in 2018 and European champion in 2019. The Olympic Games in Tokyo seem to have been the last event that the two completed together. The animal could even be euthanized.
The horse lover and series star Kaley Cuoco is also shaken by the bad news Fuchs'. She commented on his Insta post with a crying smiley face.
Once again it is bad news from a Swiss leader. There was also an accident in Tokyo. The horse of rider Robin Godel, the 14-year-old Jet Set, had to be put down after a ligament rupture.
In addition, the beating about a German rider and her trainer at the modern pentathlon had caused a stir, and the athlete and the International Olympic Committee even brought complaints.
