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2006 World Equestrian Games
Photo Report - Tuesday August 29, 2006
World Champion
Isabell Werth Celebrated in her Home Town Rheinberg
All photos copyrighted Barbara Schnell
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Everyone who has a house or a shop in Isabell's home town Rheinberg had decorated it in
black, red and gold today as Isabell Werth's (and Claudia Schiffer's)
home town on the Lower Rhine welcomed the "Queen of Dressage" back home. |
Everything that had feet (or hooves) was there to cheer Isabell,
whose middle name very appropriately is Regina (which is the Latin word
for Queen).
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A good five or dix dozen horses followed the carriage which drove
Isabell through part of the town to the stable of her home club, RV Graf
Schmettow Eversael, where a reception had been prepared for her |
Isabell's Riding Club standard bearers stand at attention during the speeches.
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Isabell in the carriage that drove her around Rheinberg
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Horn blowers welcome the new champion |
Isabell rejoiced openly in this very special triumph to be
back at the very top after a very hard six years following the
retirement of Gigolo...
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...."Only a true virtuoso", said FN vice-president Friedrich Witte, could have achieved what she did, repeating this kind of success with two different horses. For him, he said, she is the world's best dressage rider, and the crowd agreed with endless applause |
The most
touching moment came when Dr. Uwe Schulten-Baumer, Isabell's discoverer
and long-time coach, made his way quietly through the crowd and stepped
up to the podium to hug her.
She acknowledged the gesture in her speech,
but also made sure to offer her thanks to Madeleine Winter-Schulze "who
stood by me in times when just about everybody else had pretty much
pronounced us dead".
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after the speeches -- autographs for all
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All photos copyrighted Barbara Schnell
No Reproduction Allowed without Permission/Payment
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