2016 Rio Olympics - Equestrian - Final - Jumping Individual Final Round A + B - Olympic Equestrian Centre - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 19/08/2016. Nick Skelton (GBR) of Britain riding Big Star competes. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
SHELFIELD GREEN, England (Reuters) - Seventeen years after breaking his neck and being told he would never ride again, double Olympic show jumping champion Nick Skelton is finally heading into retirement.
"I've had a good innings, and got out in one piece," the 59-year-old Briton said at his stables, set in the Warwickshire countryside near William Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon.
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