LONDON (Reuters) - Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy on Saturday celebrated the way in which Britons had embraced the Olympic Games, eulogised their gold medallists and attacked bankers for "filching our gold, our silver".

Duffy's poem, "Translating the British, 2012", appeared on the front page of the Guardian newspaper, next to a photograph of Somali-born British 10,000 metre champion Mo Farah.

By Sarah Edmonds

LONDON (Reuters) - Their gold medal mounts may be for sale, but the groundwork laid by Britain's Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin should keep dressage from sinking back to obscurity in a nation more keen on show jumping than the sitting trot.

By Sarah Edmonds

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Charlotte Dujardin rode to individual Olympic dressage gold on Valegro with a patriotic freestyle programme that featured Pomp and Circumstance and the bells of Big Ben.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Charlotte Dujardin won Olympic gold in individual dressage on horse Valegro after a freestyle that celebrated British musical classic Pomp and Circumstance.

Britain, which before taking team gold earlier this week had never won an Olympic dressage medal, now boasts three. Dujardin's team mate Laura Bechtolsheimer won bronze with what she called her best ride of the Games.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Charlotte Dujardin won Olympic gold in individual dressage on Valegro after a freestyle that celebrated British classics Pomp and Circumstance and Land of Hope and Glory.

She set a new Olympic record for the freestyle with her preliminary mark of 90.089 percent.

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic doctors have had 20,000 consultations with athletes, spectators, staff and journalists during London 2012, but the Games' head medic is quietly confident at how they have been able to fix most people up to get on with the show.

By Sarah Edmonds

LONDON (Reuters) - They say anything can happen in Olympic show jumping and on Wednesday, anything did - Swiss rider Steve Guerdat beat favoured veterans for individual gold while a streak of Irish luck helped Cian O'Connor claim bronze.

LONDON (Reuters) - Steve Guerdat of Switzerland won individual Olympic show jumping gold after showing superb form throughout the Games while Gerco Schroder of the Netherlands took silver after a jump-off with Ireland's Cian O'Connor.

This is a second Olympic medal for Guerdat, who was on the Swiss squad that won team bronze in 2008.

By Sarah Edmonds

LONDON (Reuters) - There was a six-way tie going into the second round of the individual show jumping final, with stalwarts like Britain's Nick Skelton among the leaders, along with a few surprises.

By Sarah Edmonds

LONDON (Reuters) - Show jumping tends to throw up more surprises than any other equestrian sport.

By Sarah Edmonds

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain snapped a forty-year German winning streak and took team dressage gold at the London Games after Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin earned Olympic record scores.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain won team gold in Olympic dressage, breaking a 40-year winning streak for the Germans, after Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin posted Olympic record scores for their grand prix special tests.

This was the first Olympic medal of any colour for Britain in dressage, team or individual.

By Sarah Edmonds

LONDON (Reuters) - The rider of Rafalca, the horse that launched a thousand political quips thanks to famous part-owner Ann Romney, said the mare will compete for one to two more years and then may go on to become a broodmare.

By Sarah Edmonds

LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's surprise bronze in Olympic team show jumping means a slightly mysterious organisation called Saudi Equestrian has achieved a goal set in 2009 - to buy great horses and succeed in London.

By Sarah Edmonds

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain captured its first team show jumping gold in 60 years on Monday after a tie-breaking jump-off with the Netherlands while Saudi Arabia took bronze with some royal help from the grandson of Saudi King Abdullah.