Marc 'The Cope' Coppola

Marc 'The Cope' Coppola

Marc "The Cope" Coppola is a native New Yorker who can be heard on a station near you!

 

A Springsteen Going To Olympics...Equestrian.

While this week's news that "The Boss'" daughter has made the U.S. Olympic Equestrian Jumping Team came as a surprise to many fans, for Jessica Springsteen the achievement represents the end of a long journey.

The 29-year-old says she began riding horses when most girls were just starting to blossom. "I started riding when I was really little," she says. "My mom had always wanted to ride so when we moved to New Jersey she started taking lessons. Our home is right across the road from one of the top junior training barns -- and I went right into that when I was a teenager. It all really happened pretty naturally." She also got her pony at 6. Just like getting Danica Patrick a go-cart at 6.

Although Springsteen is considered one of the top jumpers in the country and has won numerous competitions, her previous bids to join the Olympic team fell short. Although she was selected as an alternate rider in 2012, she didn't compete. This year's jumping events are scheduled to occur August 2nd through August 7th in Tokyo.

Would you expect Springsteen to get preferential treatment because of whose daughter she is? To that I say probably not. You have to go on your ability. If special treatment was the case she would 't have missed the team in 2012 and 2016. But it's 8 and 4 years later and she's just that much better.

You go get that GOLD Jessica. -Cope


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