Local host-actress Sharon Au got into the patriotic mood at the Paris Olympics. The Paris-based 48-year-old, who migrated to France in 2018, caught Singaporean Olympian, equestrienne Caroline Chew, competing in dressage on July 30. Dressage involves a rider...
The Paris-based 48-year-old, who migrated to France in 2018, caught Singaporean Olympian, equestrienne Caroline Chew, competing in dressage on July 30.
While Chew, 32, who competed in the event with the horse Zatchmo, came in with the lowest scores in her group of 10 riders after her eight-minute performance, Au cheered her on. Au wrote: “Yesterday, Olympian equestrienne Caroline Chew and Zatchmo danced through Versailles’ lavish grounds in elegance and lightness, and flew Singapore flag higher and prouder, in the ancient art of dressage.”Chew suffered a blow at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Au wrote of their experience then: “I followed from her law firm Freshfields to her stables and training ground in Gloucestershire. I remember we stood in Elton, on the edge of the Forest of Dean, where we could walk wherever we in that 26 acres of forest land.
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