BRITISH golden girl Charlotte Dujardin says she will "make sure" she marries fiance Dean Golding – her partner of nine years – following her Rio Olympics glory.
Golding, who was among the crowd in Deodoro to watch Dujardin win Olympic individual dressage gold for a second successive Games, sported a sign on his T-shirt saying: "Can we get married now?"
And Dujardin has vowed not to leave him disappointed.
"Dean had already proposed," she said. "I have already got a ring on my finger, the wally!
"He just wants the whole world to know now, so he secures me and no-one takes me away!
"I've been engaged for a long time. He wants to get married now. I did promise him after London (2012) that we would get married, and it never happened.
"There was competition after competition after London, but I will make sure it happens this time."
Dujardin, 31, and Golding, a former long-distance runner, have been together for nine years.
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