bed yesterday, his Olympic dreams in tatters.

Mr. Gray, who was preparing for his third consecutive Olympic Games in Barcelona later this month, suffered a broken leg and a cracked and dislocated shoulder when he fell on the cross-country course at the Montacute Horse Trials in Somerset, England on Saturday.

His injury means that Bermuda will not have the minimum of three competitors necessary to make up a team for the three-day event competition in Barcelona.

Mr. Gray's distraught team-mates, Ms Nicola DeSousa and Ms Mary-Jane Tumbridge, will now have to compete as individuals.

"They are devastated,'' said Bermuda Equestrian Federation president Mary-Frances Gaglio, who is travelling to Spain as chef d'equipe.

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