Interview with William Fox-Pitt: The day I thought I had killed Madonna

There aren't many movie icons or rock idols, let alone sports stars, who have been poster boys for their profession for as long as William Fox-Pitt has been for three-day events. However, after having the most successful career of any Briton in the sport and completing Badminton for the 26th time, he has declared that he is finally retiring.

This is his 40th year of eventing in a sport that can leave you physically broken, maimed or worse. Five riders died at British events in 1999 and a fall in France in 2015 left Fox-Pitt in a coma for two ...