1. Lori Susan "Lolo" Jones was born on August 5,1982 and is an American hurdler and bobsledder who specializes in the 60-meter and 100-meter hurdles.
67 Facts About Lolo Jones
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Lolo Jones won three NCAA titles and garnered 11 All-American honors while at Louisiana State University.
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Lolo Jones won indoor national titles in 2007,2008, and 2009 in the 60-meter hurdles, with gold medals at the World Indoor Championship in 2008 and 2010.
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Lolo Jones was favored to win the 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but tripped on the penultimate hurdle, finishing in seventh place.
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Lolo Jones went on to win gold at the 2008 World Athletics Final, beating the newly crowned Olympic champion Dawn Harper with a time of 12.56.
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Lolo Jones competes as a brakewoman on the US national bobsled team.
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Lolo Jones won a gold medal in the mixed team event at the 2013 World Championships and in the two-woman bobsled at the 2021 World Championships.
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Lolo Jones represented the US at the 2014 Winter Olympics, making her one of the few athletes who has competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
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Outside of the Olympics, Lolo Jones has appeared on many reality TV shows, such as Dancing with the Stars, Celebrity Big Brother, The Challenge, and Name That Tune.
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Lolo Jones was born on August 5,1982, in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Lolo Jones attended eight schools in eight years while her single mother, Lori, often held down two jobs to support her family of six.
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Lolo Jones' father spent most of her childhood in the Air Force and later in state prison.
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When Lolo Jones was in third grade, her family settled in the basement of a Des Moines Salvation Army church.
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One of those who took Lolo Jones in was Janis Caldwell, who had seen Lolo Jones compete at Roosevelt.
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Lolo Jones stayed with the Caldwells after her senior year at Roosevelt, while she attended college, trained and worked part-time at the Iowa Bakery Cafe, a local coffee shop.
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Lolo Jones went on to receive college degrees in economics and Spanish.
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Lolo Jones was named Gatorade Midwest Athlete of the Year and set a record at the Iowa state track meet with a mark of 13.40 seconds for the 100-meter hurdles.
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In 2003, Lolo Jones won the 60-meter Hurdles at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
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Lolo Jones held several different part-time jobs after college, including working at Home Depot, waiting tables, and a personal trainer at a gym.
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Lolo Jones had a stellar 2006 campaign, which saw her win at Heusden-Zolder in July, running a personal best time of 12.56.
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Lolo Jones won her first national championship in 2007, winning the 60 m hurdles at the USA Indoor Championships with a time of 7.88 seconds.
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At the 2007 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Lolo Jones finished third in the 100 m hurdles, thereby earning a spot on the US Team at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan, where she finished sixth.
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Lolo Jones started the 2008 season with hopes of making the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Lolo Jones began the indoor campaign with second-place finishes in Glasgow, Gothenburg, and Stuttgart in the 60 m hurdles.
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Lolo Jones then picked up a win in Dusseldorf, setting a meet record in the process.
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In Karlsruhe, Lolo Jones ran a personal best time of 7.77 seconds and finished second to Susanna Kallur, who broke the world record with a time of 7.68 seconds.
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At the 2008 USA Indoor Championships, Lolo Jones won her second straight national championship with a time of 7.88 seconds and won the Visa Championship Series title for the 2008 indoor season.
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At the World Indoor Championships in Valencia, Spain, Lolo Jones won the 60 m hurdles with a time of 7.80 for her first world championship.
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Lolo Jones opened the 2008 outdoor season with a first-place finish at the LSU Alumni Gold meet in Baton Rouge, setting a stadium record in the process.
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At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Lolo Jones was favored to win the 100-meter hurdles.
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Lolo Jones was seen pounding the ground close to tears, trying to comprehend what had happened.
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Also according to the documentary, the doctor operated on Lolo Jones to repair the problem and the operation was a success.
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Lolo Jones began the 2009 indoor season in Europe, scoring victories in the 60 m hurdles with world-leading times of 7.82 seconds in Karlsruhe and Birmingham.
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Lolo Jones returned to the States and won the national indoor title in the 60 m hurdles.
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Lolo Jones did not repeat her indoor success as her arms collided with Michelle Perry in the semi-finals and fell, missing out on the opportunity to compete at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.
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Lolo Jones returned to form in Rethymno, beating Priscilla Lopes-Schliep and Damu Cherry with a world-leading time of 12.47 seconds.
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Lolo Jones faced strong competition on the European circuit: Jones took third at the London Grand Prix behind Sally McLellan and Perdita Felicien, and a run of 12.61 seconds was only enough for third again at Herculis.
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Lolo Jones ran her second-fastest time of the season at the DN Galan meeting, but she was beaten to the line by Lopes-Schliep.
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Lolo Jones re-injured her hamstring at Weltklasse Zurich, ruling her out for the rest of the season.
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Lolo Jones defended her 60m hurdles Indoor World Title in Doha after finishing with a time of 7.72, a new American record.
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Lolo Jones made her 2011 race debut at Aviva International match, Kelvin Hall in Glasgow.
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Lolo Jones finished the race in fourth with a time of 8.27 after hitting the third hurdle.
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On June 23,2012, Lolo Jones placed third in the 100 m hurdles at the US Olympics trials, qualifying her for a spot on the 2012 Summer Olympics team.
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In May 2013, Lolo Jones earned her first win of the 2013 season at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo.
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Lolo Jones won the NACAC Championships women's 100 m hurdles in 12.63 {4.1 wind}.
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Lolo Jones won the 100 Meters Hurdles final with 13.45 and the 100 Meters Dash final with 11.93.
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Lolo Jones's time took over a third of a second off of Monica Pelligrinelli's 2006 W40 world record.
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In October 2012, Lolo Jones was named to the US national bobsled team.
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Lolo Jones was one of three track and field Olympians invited to the US women's bobsled push championship by coach Todd Hays.
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On January 27,2013, Lolo Jones won gold in the team event with the US at the FIBT World Championships in St Moritz.
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Lolo Jones was selected for the US bobsled team competing at the 2014 Sochi Olympics on January 19,2014, as the brakewoman for the USA Team-3 sled.
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Lolo Jones delivered a $3,000 check to buy indoor practice hurdles and for improvements to repair the school's track surface.
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In July 2008, while back in Des Moines for a send-off ceremony before the 2008 Summer Olympics, Lolo Jones donated the $4,000 prize from winning the 100-meter hurdles at the Olympic trials to Renee Trout, a single mother from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who was hit by the Iowa flood of 2008.
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In October 2009, Lolo Jones posed nude for The Body Issue of ESPN the Magazine.
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Lolo Jones appeared as a guest on the June 25,2012, episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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On September 4,2014, Lolo Jones was announced as one of the celebrities competing on the 19th season of Dancing with the Stars.
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In 2017, Lolo Jones joined the cast of MTV's special mini-series The Challenge: Champs vs Pros.
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Lolo Jones was eliminated in episode 6, raising $1,000 for her charity Hurdles of Hope.
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Lolo Jones is the most followed US track and field athlete on Twitter.
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Lolo Jones's tweets have frequently been the subject of controversy and media coverage.
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Lolo Jones has stated she greatly dislikes the attention, but tries to consider the potential benefits of social media views.
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In January 2019, Lolo Jones was one of the twelve houseguests competing on the second season of Celebrity Big Brother.
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In 2020, Lolo Jones joined the cast of the 36th season of The Challenge.
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Lolo Jones left the show on her own accord in episode 11, citing frustrations with her performance in the competition and to prepare for the Olympic Games.
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Lolo Jones disputed the portrayal of her departure on her social media, claiming production "forced" her to leave.
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Lolo Jones rejected the criticism, saying that her critics should be supporting the US Olympic athletes, whereas instead they just "ripped me to shreds".
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Lolo Jones stated that The New York Times did not do its research properly, since, unlike Kournikova, she had won several major races, including two world indoor titles and holding the indoor American record.