F1 | Sky Sport, Michael Jordan and Jackie Stewart: when one sport is not enough [VIDEO]

The Scottish pilot failed to qualify for the 1960 Rome Olympics in clay pigeon shooting

F1 | Sky Sport, Michael Jordan and Jackie Stewart: when one sport is not enough [VIDEO]

Interesting analysis by Sky Sport 24 regarding athletes who have also dabbled in other sports, not just those that made them legends. The most striking case is certainly that of Michael Jordan, an undisputed champion in the NBA who wanted to experience the thrill of the baseball field but without obtaining positive results. At the beginning of 1995 the possibilities of a return to basketball were more than concrete, even ESPN interrupted its programming to announce the possible return of MJ23 to the Bulls.

In Rogoredo's studies, Dario Nicolini and Geri De Rosa made a parallel with other more or less well-known athletes who decided to try their hand at multiple sports disciplines, but the most important and famous in the media after Jordan was certainly Jackie stewart: three-time Formula 1 world champion and who took up clay pigeon shooting. Defined by the Scot as a hobby, it turned out to be something more as he came within a shot of qualifying for the 1960 Rome Olympics. Jackie missed that shot and had to say goodbye to the chance of winning an Olympic medal, an impossible prize for a Formula 1 driver and motorsport driver in general. The Scotsman described that missed shot as the biggest sporting disappointment of his life.

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