GB lead team eventing despite Canter's jumping penalties

Great Britain remain top of the team eventing standings after the cross country despite a jumping penalty against Ros Canter drastically reducing their lead.

Team GB are looking to defend their Olympic title for the first time since 1972 and looked well placed to do so after a flawless run from Tom McEwen on JL Dublin.

That was followed by Laura Collett suffering only a 0.8 penalty on London 52, and while that saw her drop to second in the individual standings - 0.5 behind Germany's Michael Jung - the British team were some way clear of their nearest rivals.

However, Canter was then given 15 jumping penalties to drop from sixth to 24th in the individual and cut Great Britain's lead to 4.7 over France.

On Sunday evening, British Equestrian confirmed that Canter's penalties stood following a review.