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By Tobias Carroll It began with a woman punching a horse. During this summer’s Tokyo Olympics, German coach Kim Raisner sought to control the horse being ridden by Annika Schleu during the modern pentathlon competition. Raisner struck the horse and was promptly ejected from the Olympics as a whole. Historically, show jumping has been one of five components of the pentathlon; the others are fencing, swimming, pistol shooting and cross-country running. But earlier this months, reports emerged that the Olympics would replace show jumping with cycling moving forward to reduce the potential of crue…