It’s time for us to get behind the controversial hurdles champion turned bobsledder. Because GO USA!
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Isn't it about time we start loving Lolo Jones again?
In a way, Lolo Jones is the sports version of Anne Hathaway: undeniably talented, accomplished, perhaps too eager to be loved, painfully awkward at times and, ahem, all kinds of attractive. Like Hathaway, Jones has roused legions of Mean Girls and Boys. The New York Times among them, even.
What's her alleged problem?
She's supposedly a spotlight hog.
The tide really seemed to turn against Jones — who'd arrived on the national scene as a hurdler in the 2008 Olympics — in the run-up to London 2012, when there was much discussion about whether the attention she received was commensurate with her achievement. The headline of the aforementioned Times essay was:
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