Intro:

The Great Britain Eventing team held a media event in Greenwich on Tuesday, just a stone's throw away from the venue where they will be competing at the London Olympic Games.

The five-strong team includes Olympic medallists and world champions, but most of the attention fell upon 31 year-old Zara Phillips, grand-daughter to Queen Elizabeth II.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Zara Phillips:
Question: 'Probably you have a big fan called Elizabeth! Is the Queen your biggest fan?' (laughter)
"Oh, man... Um... Obviously, the family are very proud and right behind me and it's great that I've been able to be selected to start with, but we've still got to get there and the next few weeks we're working really hard to make sure that we all do our best performance ever and I just feel very lucky to be riding on a team with these guys..."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mary King:
(On the London Games being her sixth Olympics)
"Yes, this feels like my first, really. The fact that I've done Olympics before, I'm as excited, as enthusiastic as I was for my first. I suppose there is an advantage having been to an Olympics before, you know a little bit more what to expect, but every Olympics is so different and I just feel lucky that I'm still able to be at the top of my sport, at my ripe old age."

SOUNDBITE: (English) William Fox-Pitt:
"Yeah, I think the terrain at Greenwich is quite unlike anything that we've seen before at any championship. It's going to be very demanding, I think, but certianly for Team GB, we hope it is demanding. I think we want a serious comptition, we're hoping they build a big track (cross-country), hoping the Show Jumping's big, and that they make a real competition out of it."