Jessica Springsteen won’t have any “Glory Days” in these Olympics.
On Saturday, the U.S. equestrian team revealed its roster for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, featuring veteran riders Kent Farrington, Laura Kraut, and McLain Ward, along with Karl Cook as an alternate.
The 32-year-old daughter of legendary musician Bruce Springsteen, 74, who won a silver medal in Tokyo as part of the U.S. show jumping team in 2021, was left off the roster.
“The Dancing in the Dark” singer had even left a two-week break open on the European leg of his tour that coincided with the games, according to NJ.com.
On April 10, Jessica native was initially named one of the top 10 athletes on the U.S. Jumping Team’s shortlist for the Olympics.
It was a group that was “chosen for continued observation,” the U.S. Equestrian said in a press release.
However, she dropped to 127th in the rankings, per the International Federation for Equestrian Sports, while heading into the team’s selection.
It was a dramatic falling off from her No. 14 spot in 2021.
Three years ago, she teamed up with Kraut and Ward to bring home the fourth medal in the past five Olympic games while riding her 12-year-old Belgian warmblood.
The medal and the chaos of COVID-19 left the younger Springsteen eager to come back to the worldwide spectacle.
“Tokyo 2020 was such an incredible experience, but because of that year and all the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, you know, you couldn’t have your family and your friends there,” Springsteen told Harper’s Bazaar in May. “So I was like, oh my gosh, I would love to go to another Olympics and be able to share that with my family, who’ve been so supportive of my career for so many years.”
Springsteen started taking lessons at 4 years old while growing up on a 368-acre farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey and quickly had a knack for competing among those in their 40s and 50s.
“There really is no other sport like it, and I think the connection you develop with the horses is something really special,” she said in 2020. “That’s what has drawn me to it since I was little, and that is what I still love the most about it: how in sync you can be with your horse. Once you’ve created that partnership, the horses can read what you are thinking before you even ask them to do it.”
The equestrian competition at this year’s games begins on July 27, with individual jumping qualifiers starting two days later.
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