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Equestrian events are the only Olympic sport where both men and women compete together. ‘And they don’t discriminate against the horse’s sex either,’ Goldstein said.
Danielle Goldstein Waldman attracts attention wherever she goes, even when she isn’t riding the horse on which she hopes to compete in the 2020 Olympics, which will be held in Tokyo this summer. The thousands of colored feathers the championship-winning show jumper wears woven into her hair have earned her the social media hashtag #FlyingFeathers for the way they flow behind her when she’s riding.
While Israel’s equestrian team has not yet announced the four athletes who will represent it in Tokyo, barring injury, Waldman – known as Dani – is certain to be on it, sources say. It will be the champion rider’s first Olympics and the first Olympics in which Israel has qualified to compete in equestrian events. Which it did partly thanks to Waldman’s performance in the qualifie