Lolo Jones' fourth place finish in 100 meter hurdl

Lolo Jones' fourth place finish in 100 meter hurdles behind Dawn Harper,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
She invested so much of herself into winning gold and baring her soul. What now,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]? The winners go on to lives of glory. But what about the ones who shoot big and lose?
Jones finished fourth in the Olympic 100-meter hurdles Tuesday. Her fastest race of the year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 12.58 seconds,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but no medal. Again. Here is the painful truth: Lolo Jones just isn quite good enough. For all the marketing and all the headlines, you still have to get it done in the big moment.
I just feel like a big disappointment, Jones said. I guess all the people who were talking about me can have their night and laugh about me, I guess. is never going to be an Olympic medalist. She was on the verge of winning gold four years ago in Beijing, but hit a hurdle and finished seventh. She said she had always hoped that Rio would be her last Olympics, but that four years away,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and she be 34 by then.
Jones was a wreck after the race. Not so much in tears,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though there were some. Instead,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it was about the confusion of what this means for her after all the buildup. There was anger, frustration, embarrassment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], maybe some fear mixed in there, too. Definitely some fear.
I should probably mention the medal winners here. There were some,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Australian Sally Pearson won gold in 12.35 seconds,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Americans Dawn Harper and Kellie Wells won silver and bronze. Jones missed a medal by one-tenth of a second.
Afterward, Harper and Wells were not the most gracious of winners regarding Jones.
feel like I kind of shut some people up, Harper said. got to talk about Dawn a little bit. Sprinkle me in that conversation about the hundred hurdles. were right there,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Dawn, just 289 words into this Lolo column. Harper is the one who won gold in Beijing after Jones hit the hurdle. And she has been frustrated and actually bitter about all the attention Jones has gotten.
I understand it. The other hurdlers are jealous. And the media are holding her to an unfair standard,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], probably sexist. Also, when people are in the spotlight all the time, sometimes you can get tired of them.
Jones has sold herself endlessly, but that exactly what these athletes with short-term careers should be doing. The turning point was probably in tweeting and then in saying on HBO that she a virgin. It made Jones one of the biggest sports names, but also kicked off some hard feelings about what,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], exactly, she was trying to push.
Yes, that was probably calculated. But it was Jones trying to open up even more. She had already told about living in poverty, in a Red Cross basement,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and shoplifting to get food. We ask these athletes to let us in, and Jones did,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], big time.
She was a marketing creation, and now will have to go back to that. But at one point, she also was the world best hurdler. She won two indoor world championships. She has not only made two Olympic teams, but also reached two finals.
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