Equestr![](an - Bolt gives Jamaican eventer a leg up to London
"Saturday July 28 2012 08:34 am
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Jamaica's lone equestrian competitor at the Olympic Games only made it to London 2012 with a little help from an illustrious compatriot, Usain Bolt.
Sprint superstar Bolt, the reigning Olympic 100m and 200m champoion, donated three shirts and two signed books for a raffle Albert staged in her local pub in Highclere, Hampshire, southern England.
Top flat jockey Frankie Dettori also helped her cause, offering up four dinners at one of his London restaurants during the raffle staged at a special Jamaican evening at her local.
“Usain Bolt was very helpful,” she told AFP after her turn in the Greenwich Park arena on Carraig Dubh.
“I met him again at a party at the Olympic Village,” she added.
Nice touch. But what do you expect from a guy who has a horse named after him.
(I would have linked but it only gave a generic link to cbs olympic page.
