She is an ambassador for the ASICS Extra Mile campaign , which promotes self-confidence and healthy lifestyles for young girls through running. Skiing's most successful 'bromance' This work is important to her given she started out in track and field with a pair of donated running shoes.
But at the highest level, some barriers remain for women which she feels are important to break down. Read: World's most beautiful ski lodges. For so many years, we didn't have actually the chance to compete. And there's still areas where we are trying to break through, even in the bobsled," Jones says. Visit cnn. Jones has received far greater publicity than any other American track and field athlete competing in the London Games.
This was based not on achievement but on her exotic beauty and on a sad and cynical marketing campaign. Essentially, Jones has decided she will be whatever anyone wants her to be — vixen, virgin, victim — to draw attention to herself and the many products she endorses.
She looked spectacular in her runner's outfit in the Summer Olympics too. Those two facts—combined with her ,plus Twitter followers —mean, once again, she's a storyline, this time in a sport she fully admits she would have nothing to do with had she managed to succeed in her chosen profession.
Are you kidding me? Despite that disdain for her own game, Jones is getting the bulk of the attention in Sochi, even though she's the low woman on the athletic totem pole. Deadspin's Barry Petchesky argues that's a good thing.
Anything that brings eyeballs, attention and charitable donations to a sport short on cash can't be all bad:. I don't know enough about bobsled to say whether Jones was the right choice, but she was surely the most famous. Telegenic, marketable, controversial , and, yes, a ratings draw.
Speaking as a casual fan—and Olympic season is when casual fans are indulged, and outright catered to—I do care more about the bobsled team because Lolo Jones is on it. But who's really profiting from the increased media coverage?
Veteran brakeman Curt Tomasevicz isn't so sure it's the bobsled team. She relived the moment constantly, while washing dishes and even while asleep. On and off over the years, as she relived in the HBO documentary The Weight of Gold , Jones also experienced passive suicidal thoughts. Even as recently as during COVID, quarantining alone in Baton Rouge before adopting a pandemic pup, the goldendoodle Loki, she spiraled into depression at the thought that her career might have ended due to factors outside her control.
In an Aug. Jones has received far greater publicity than any other American track and field athlete competing in the London Games. This was based not on achievement but on her exotic beauty and on a sad and cynical marketing campaign. Essentially, Jones has decided she will be whatever anyone wants her to be — vixen, virgin, victim — to draw attention to herself and the many products she endorses. He also characterized her openness about growing up in poverty as a ploy for attention.
Jones cried on Today after reading the piece. Then she finished one-tenth of a second shy of the podium in the hurdle final. The childhood struggles Longman weaponized are well-documented. They make up possibly the most oft-recited downtrodden U. Olympic backstory. She learned to shoplift food to make do.
She was homeless for a time, living with her mother and siblings in a Des Moines church basement. She also lived with other families throughout high school as her family moved, so she could stay put and keep her track dream alive. In good years, though, she netted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a combination of sponsors and prize money. Rather, it was with the media for favoring Jones, a lighter-skinned woman, even as her darker-skinned teammates were medaling.
She is. For her part, Jones enjoys promoting herself and seeking attention. She was a fairly early Twitter adopter, joining in August , when most athletes shuddered at the thought of branding themselves on social media. What a relief. Still, she admitted, "It's hard to date. One guy is a workaholic the other one unmotivated. Looks or morals. Hard call. She continued, "I get bored because I feel I am never going to meet someone in person.
I swear covid year gave me 10 extra grey hairs. Really not helping the cause to lock someone down before I get 'old old. Turns out, many of Jones' followers feel the same way.
Lolo Jones can be single looking like that and being an Olympic competitor, so can I, thanks for being the strong female inspiration we all need! Cats are not so bad. Want lifestyle and wellness news delivered to your inbox?
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