Zara Tindall equestrianism. Despite winning team gold at the 2007 European Eventing Championships in Italy, she failed to defend her individual title after a problem in the show-jumping phase of the competition. The British Olympic Association announced that Tindall would ride Toytown for the British equestrian team at the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 in Hong Kong. However Toytown was injured during training and she was forced to withdraw from the team. Tindall also missed the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, when Toytown suffered a similar injury during training. On 25 October 2008, Tindall fell from her horse, Tsunami II, at the 15th
Spain at the 2008 Summer Olympics injury shortly before the start of the games. Spain will send one man to compete at the modern pentathlon: Jaime López Spain send one rower to the 2008 Summer Olympics – Nuria Domínguez. She competed in the women's singles event. This was her third Olympic appearance as she rowed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics. Spain qualified in 10 Olympic sailing classes and will be sending 16 athletes to the races in Qingdao, China. Only the men's team qualified to play on these Olympic Games. The team finished in fifth place. Spain at the 2008 Summer