Jessica Springsteen selected for Olympic team

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Jessica Springsteen selected for Olympic team

#1 Post by bazodee » Tue Jul 06, 2021 11:03 am

This will make a good trivia question in about 20 years:

Bruce Springsteen's daughter, Jessica, is headed to Tokyo as part of the U.S. Olympic equestrian team. She was one of the riders named to the jumping squad.
Springsteen, 29, will ride Don Juan van de Donkhoeve, a 12-year-old Belgian Warmblood stallion, at the Olympics. The other members of the jumping team include Kent Farrington of Wellington, Fla., Laura Kraut of Royal Palm Beach, Fla., and McClain Ward of Brewster, N.Y.


Springsteen's official U.S. Equestrian Federation biography says she started taking riding lessons at the age of five and is now one of the top jumping athletes in the U.S. She is currently ranked third in the U.S. in jumping behind Kraut and Ward.

"She has represented the U.S. as part of FEI Nations Cup teams, including the winning teams in both Palm Beach, Fla. and Wellington, Fla., in 2020, Dublin, Ireland in 2014 and at the 2018 FEI Jumping Nations Cup Final in Barcelona, Spain," her USEF page says.

USA TODAY reports Springsteen was an alternate for the 2012 Olympic team and did not make the 2016 team.

Her USEF bio does not make any mention of her famous father.

Equestrian has three disciplines: jumping, dressage and eventing. Jumping is the form of equestrian most casual fans likely think about. The rider and horse are timed over a course in which the horses have to jump obstacles which can include parallel rails, triple bars, water jumps and simulated stone walls. Time penalties may be assessed if the horse and rider don't clear the obstacle or if they skip it. The horse and rider who get through the course the fastest and with the fewest penalties wins.
Equestrian is the only Olympic sport in which men and women will compete against each other individually on equal footing for the same medals.

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#2 Post by Vandal » Tue Jul 06, 2021 11:43 am

She’s on fire.
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#3 Post by triviawayne » Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:23 pm

Vandal wrote:
Tue Jul 06, 2021 11:43 am
She’s on fire.
and she's Born in the USA

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#4 Post by Vandal » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:17 pm

When your horse jumps you can see the darkness on the edge of town.
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#5 Post by kroxquo » Tue Jul 06, 2021 10:36 pm

Here's hoping she gets some glory days.
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Re: Jessica Springsteen selected for Olympic team

#6 Post by T_Bone0806 » Wed Jul 07, 2021 9:47 am

Hopefully it won't be discovered that her horse was Born to RUN at an inopportune time...
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#7 Post by silverscreenselect » Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:59 am

Springsteen and her US teammates have qualified for tomorrow's team equestrian jumping final (where the US won a silver medal in the 2016 Olympics). No Americans qualified for the individual final held earlier in the week.
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#8 Post by Vandal » Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:28 am

May she channel her inner Rumble Doll.
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#9 Post by silverscreenselect » Sat Aug 07, 2021 11:51 am

Jessica Springsteen and her teammates won the silver medal in the team jumping competition. The U.S. tied Sweden with eight penalty points in the competition, which then went to a timed tiebreaker. Sweden then won the tiebreaker by over a second to claim the gold medal.
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