The Queen hosted a reception at Clarence House to celebrate the success of British equestrian teams at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics. Her Majesty met medal-winning athletes, support staff, and Paralympians who secured one silver and six bronze medals. BEF CEO Jim Eyre presented the Queen with a commemorative photo book, honouring the team’s achievements. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Hello, can I introduce Helen who is our performance director?
00:20Hello Helen, nice to meet you.
00:21Very nice to meet you.
00:22And Sophie who does the operations and everything, makes it all happen.
00:27Thank you very much for having us.
00:29I hope so.
00:30I'm delighted to see you Helen.
00:31Yes I do.
00:32Fantastic.
00:33So you're here, you're not?
00:34I'm here, yeah, no, no, I'm not.
00:37I'm not doing any riding of children, no.
00:39I've got my family.
00:40I've got something to give to you because my daughter was very jealous that we were coming.
00:44So she's drawn you a picture.
00:46You don't know what I mean to that.
00:48She says, to Queen Camilla, she would like to be a princess.
00:52Do you want to share a picture of this?
01:02Yes, they put no pressure on us at all, it was so phenomenal.
01:07It was some very positive pressure, but yeah, we did an incredibly good job.
01:15Well, hand back over to these superstars, so we were ok.
01:21It's a fun poster.
01:23It's a team from...
01:25Yes, I do.
01:27It's a team from the public service.
01:29Other than that,
01:31it's just a team.
01:33It's a team.
01:35Thank you so much.
01:37Thank you so much.
01:39Well, it's quite nice.
01:41It's a good thing that we've got
01:43something like this.
02:27Nice to meet you.
02:29Hello. I'm very well, thank you.
02:31And you?
02:33I am incharge of portals
02:35and loads of scrap mail
02:37and...
02:39Who are you?
02:41My dog.
02:43Yeah, I'm a great photographer. Yeah, for Laura Pollack, one of the MF writers.
02:50So is she a professional photographer?
02:54No.
02:55No?
02:56No.
02:57How long have you started being a photographer?
02:59How long have you been a photographer?
03:0114 years.
03:0214 years?
03:03Erm, 7 years.
03:057 years?
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03:07Do you know what you're going to write?
03:09Yeah.
03:10You're going to write about my wife, James Morris.
03:12Oh, are you?
03:13Yeah.
03:14She's a professional.
03:15Oh, is she?
03:16Yeah.
03:17She's an artist.
03:18Oh, okay.
03:19And to be honest, I never really knew what she was going to be talking about.
03:21I have a few, and I can't actually count them at the moment, but we do a bit of reading
03:25as well, which I really, really love.
03:27Oh, wow.
03:28Yes.
03:29So I'm going to write about James Morris.
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06:01There we go.
06:02So 2024 was an incredible year.
06:03It pains me to say how well the French did.
06:04Paris was truly exceptional.
06:06For us in Wisconsin and the world class, it was a roller coaster year.
06:13And there were the highs and there were the lows.
06:16And that our teams were able to perform so extraordinarily well and every ride that'd
06:23back with a medal is testament to the talent that we have within this country. It's not
06:29just about the talent, it's the systems and it's the people, the people that are here
06:36that really make the riders and the horses and the competition work so well. So thank you and
06:43I can't name all of you but you know from the grooms, from the owners without whom we just
06:50wouldn't be here, to the farriers, the saddlers, the physios, nutritionists, everyone who plays
06:56their magical part, the ops teams and again to the disciplines that create that platform,
07:01that structure that allows our athletes just to compete on the world stage. Thank you. It's a team
07:08within a team and it's a family. Thank you for everything you do. Your Majesty we have a copy
07:14of our photo book from the Games. It's got all the gory snapshots, the tears, the thrills
07:21and the medals and we'd love to give you that. Oh thank you very much.
07:32Can I just reiterate exactly what Jim said that I'm so proud to be your patron and
07:41it made us all feel very proud to be British. I'm sorry I wasn't there but I was watching
07:48very keenly every bit of it on the television and it really did bring tears to the eyes. So
07:55thank you the whole team for everything you do and let's keep British the best.
08:01So thank you very much indeed and thank you for coming today.