He had a great chance to win an individual medal, but after three crashes in the last round of the final, it was clear that there would be no podium for Jens Fredricson.
- It still feels good.
I made a plan where I removed jumps and it resulted in me being too short in the combinations and getting three knockdowns.
If I hadn't done that, I would have had a time fault, so that was what I had to choose between, to have a time fault or to try to ride with these big jumps, says Fredricson, who seemed to take the failure in stride.
- I rode exactly according to plan, it's just that when you ride with such big leaps, it's difficult and the horse didn't have time.
I could have made another plan but then I wouldn't have made it in time.
He could take solace in the fact that teammate Henrik von Eckermann took the gold.
- It was freezing cold and fantastically well ridden, and the horse jumps so that you can believe it is from another world, says Fredricson.