Bruce Springsteen is certainly the proudest star in the world right now: his 29-year-old daughter Jessica, born from the union with the guitarist of his E Street band, Patti Scialfa, will be ai Tokyo Games in the US riding team. He will be riding his horse, a 12-year-old stallion, called Don Juan Van De Donkehoeve. Young Springsteen has been a pro for some time and is considered one of America’s best jumpers. Who knows if she’ll wear the underwear line “Skims ”creata by Kim Kardashian, at the request of the American Olympic Committee, for the US team. Briefs and bras have the American flag and the five Olympic circles in the logo.
Jessica Springsteen, riding champion
Star champions on set and on the pitch
What does the reality star have to do with sport? Nothing. As a child, however, she said that with her mother Kris she followed the training and competitions of her former stepfather Caitlyn Jenner (nata William Bruce Jenner), former Olympic decathlon champion at the 1976 Montreal Games. Returning to horse riding too Kate Upton was a professional rider. The actress and model (married, in turn, to baseball champion Justin Brooks Verlander) has won several national awards in theRight here, the American Paint Horse Association, before hitting the catwalks and ending up on set. And it’s not the only one in Hollywood. There are many star champions on set and on the pitch.
Geena Davis came close to the Sydney Olympics with archery
Geena Davis one step away from the Sydney Olympics
Several stars, like her, risked becoming serious sports champions of other disciplines if the world of celluloid had not led them to “compete” on the big screen and excel as actors. Geena Davis in Sidney, for example, it is the most emblematic symbol. The eternal interpreter of Thelma e Louise by Ridley Scott, whose thirtieth anniversary was celebrated just last June at the Greek heatre in Los Angeles (with sapphic kiss to Susan Sarandon as in the final scene of the film), in 2000 could have participated in the Sydney Olympics with the American Archery National Team. Unfortunately, however, he did not pass the last test right at the Sydney International Golden Arrow. She barely touched the feat: she finished twenty-fourth out of three hundred athletes.
Mickey Rourke in a ring in New York in the 1980s.
The ring off the set
For the actor Mickey Rourke, cinema was, on the other hand, just a parenthesis from his greatest passion: boxing. Before becoming the sex symbol of the eighties with the cult film of the time, Nine and a half weeks with Kim Basinger, he had fought in the rings of New York losing 17 out of 21 races. After the success, and the decline in the nineties along with drug and rehab stories with ex-wife and actress Carrè Otis, he took up his gloves as a professional boxer. Result: broken nose, broken teeth, cracked ribs, disfigured cheekbones and so many plastic surgeries that in 2008 was already unrecognizable at the preview of The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky, which earned him a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. As well as the “passport” to return to the set. Where, in the end, he starred in a total of sixty films, of which the last, The legionnaire, in 2020.
Dan Cortese, George Clooney and Ozzie Smith.
George Clooney, provino con i Cincinnati Reds
Speaking of wrestlers, who really was was the actor Dwayne Johnson, also called “he Rock”, formerly elected the sexiest man in the world by People magazine. The interpreter of various Fast and Furious has won the Intercontinental Championship twice, the Wwe Tag Team Championship for five and the Royal Rumble, in addition to obtaining the Triple Crown. George Clooney, on the other hand, before becoming the father of the twins Ella and Alexander, who today are four years old, had by his wife Amal Alamuddin, and to participate in the various sequels of Ocean’s Eleven, was a promise of baseball: in 1997 he supported an audition to enter the Cincinnati Reds, the team Ohio. He was on the verge of professionalism, but then they didn’t offer him any serious gigs.
Russell Crowe is a bicycle enthusiast.
Keanu Reeves hockey champion
Keanu Reeves, for your part, al college had to choose whether to continue the competition, as an official goalkeeper of Toronto’s De La Salle ice hockey team, or throw yourself into an acting career. We know how it went. But not just actors. There are also unsuspected singers with sporting careers behind them. One of them all is Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson. Before becoming the ‘king’ of heavy metal he was in the top ten fencing champions in the UK. He quit at 23 when he was seventh in the UK ranking.
All surfing fanatics in Los Angeles
What if Hugh Grant is a tennis fan (the English actor is a regular presence at Wimbledon) e Australian Russel Crowe a bicycle fanatic, surfing is the favorite sport in Los Angeles. Sean Penn, Cameron Diaz e Ben Affleck they are among the most tenacious. James Franco e Owen Wilson they claimed the surfboard saved them from depression. The images of Matt Damon exhausted and overwhelmed by the waves llast year in Byron Bay, Australia, they went around the world. The recall of Point Break with the forgotten In short, Patrick Swayze never dies.
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