Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyIf you believe Eric Lamaze, which fewer and fewer people do, the Olympic champion was given two hours to live in 2020 before he absconded from the hospital and went home to recover on his own. His vitals were failing, he says; the bleeding ulcer in his stomach was the largest the doctors had ever seen. As he left, his story goes, the needles were still in his arm.“I told my cleaning lady, ‘Put the TV as loud as you can and throw a buc
The United States Equestrian Team (USET) Foundation has awarded the 2021 Lionel Guerrand-Hermès Trophy to 20-year-old Hannah Irons of Queenstown, Maryland.
Each year, the USET awards the Lionel Guerrand-Hermès Trophy to a Junior/Young Rider in an Olympic discipline who exemplifies the Team’s ideals of sportsmanship and horsemanship. Irons, an active member of the Discover Dressage USEF/USDF Emerging Athlete Program and the FEI Young Rider Individual Test champion at the 2020 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions, now joins a very elite group of riders that have gone on to achieve great success on an international stage on behalf of the U.S.