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Jessica Springsteen
grew up on a farm in
Rumson, New Jersey
, surrounded by goats, chickens, pigs, ostriches, and horses. This explains many things. The first, that a childhood with ostriches is unconventional. The second, that now she is going to be an Olympian in equestrianism. At the age of six, his parents,
Bruce Springsteen
(yes, that one) and
Patti Scialfa
, gave him a pony for his birthday instead of any toy according to his age. 23 years after that gift, she is one of the four members of the United States team that will compete in Tokyo in the show jumping category.
Instead of following the musical path of her parents, Jessica decided to carve out her future. In 2011 he participated for the first time in the prestigious
Royal Windsor Horse Show
and three years later he won the United States Gold Cup. Until 2014 he combined show jumping with studies. "I really wanted to go to college to see if there was something I was as passionate about as riding," he revealed to
Robb Report
magazine
in 2019. But as soon as he graduated from Duke University in psychology, he realized that he had already found his passion and, from there, concentrated all his effort on horse riding.
He began riding horses at the age of four, following watching his mother take horse riding lessons and, under the guidance of
Stacia Klein Madden
, a successful instructor, began to win the first titles on the junior show jumping circuit.
At 29, she has already won nearly $ 2 million in international competitions, and while her parents have stayed out of the limelight with their daughter's career, they have supported American horsemanship with concerts and auctions.
"I'm happy that you like it as much as I do and enjoy seeing me," the rider went on to say in an interview in 2019.
Bruce and Jessica Springsteen.EVAN AGOSTINI
Her mother is the one who suffers the most of the two when she sees her compete, despite being the main responsible for Jessica getting where she is. Spectators are prohibited from attending the
Olympics
due to the Covid-19 pandemic, so their parents will not be able to see them in person. It will make you strange, as Bruce and Patti are avid fans of their performances.
Since she was immersed in this sport, she cannot imagine her life without horses: "What I like the most is that during the two minutes that you are on the track, you focus completely on one single thing, it frees me," she commented after qualify for Tokyo. The equine world has also conditioned (for the better) his personal life and since 2019 he has had a sentimental relationship with the Italian rider
Lorenzo de Luca
.
"Jessica from the beginning has said that she did not want to be known only as the daughter of Bruce Springsteen, she wanted to forge her own path," said
Melanie Smith Taylor
, 1984 gold medalist and leading American horse racing legend. And so he has been forging it until on June 13, he won the
Grand Prix Hubside Jumping Tour
in France, securing his place in the Olympic team. Springsteen, who ranks 27th in the world and is the third best in her country, will ride
12-year-old
Belgian stallion
Don Juan van de Donkhoeve
in Tokyo
, and
McLain Ward, Laura Kraut and Kent Farrington
will be her teammates. Ward and Kraut have already been gold medalists at previous Olympics.
Jessica will finally fulfill a dream that resisted her: to represent her country in the Games.
She went to London 2012 as a reserve rider and, a month later, she bought the horse that won the gold medal in that competition (Vindicat W, which was owned by
Peter Charles
).
In 2016, he won his first five-star Grand Prix show jumping competition, and all indications were that he was going to be on the United States Equestrian Federation's roster for the Rio Games.
However, he could not be classified due to problems with his horse's legs.
Springsteen, currently installed in the Netherlands and trained by
Edwina Tops-Alexander
, will finally be able to represent her country in the top competition.
If her father was born to run, she was born to jump.
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