Hate for lolo?
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She won three NCAA titles and is 11 All-American while at LSU.
She won indoor US national titles in 2007, 2008 and 2009 in the 60 m hurdles.
Won gold medals at the World Indoor Championship in 2008 and 2010.
She is the American record holder in the 60m hurdles.
She is a 2 time Olympic qualifier and was the world leader and favorite in 2008.
I assume she "medaled" when she won THREE NCAA titles besides being a 11 time All-American.
She has FIVE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS! I assume you realize they give out "medals" for world championships right?
Man if not medaling at the Olympics is the measure of success/failure in a sport then there aren't many successful athletes out there even though they are among the best in the world...
Maybe not success or failure, certainly not winning an Olympics medal doesn't make you a failure. But I don't think generally speaking people care about what you do in the World Championships, especially I'd say for non-Olympic events.
The bar is set pretty high for a lot of these athletes in Olympic sports. This is really their only time to shine in the spotlight. Even big sports fans don't follow these sports outside of the Olympics. If you want to be a household name star in track (or swimming, or gymnastics, or volleyball, etc.) the only way to get there is to win at the Olympics.
Isn't Jordan Wieber the defending world champion for gymnastics? Doesn't matter, nobody cares. Gabby took the prize at the Olympics when the world was watching, so she will be the one signing the endorsement deals, smiling on the front of a cereal box, and landing a spot on Dancing with the Stars.
If you want fame and fortune without coming through on the biggest stage, grab a basketball or a football.
haters gonna hate. Bottom line, you don't tear down a fellow American athelete 2 days before she runs the event. She was representing your couch potato ***'s that wouldn't stand a chance against her.
Would love to see any one of you critics practice all day everyday for 4 years just to run a 10 second race. STFU.
Would love to see any one of you critics practice all day everyday for 4 years just to run a 10 second race. STFU.
She's overrated imho. No medals-no attention, that's a fair game
Overrated would mean everyone thought she was the favorite for gold. In fact, most critics believed that she would not even make the team.
She is over-publicized. Not overrated.
She is over-publicized because she is hot. Something she can't really help.
I suppose I am different, but I look at the World Championships and Olympics as one in the same. I understand the media coverage is not comparable. The Olympics are the "World Championships" every fourth year. The other years the top tournament is the World Championship tournament.
For some athletes their peak performance period may not cover a span of an Olympic cycle. They may peak in the middle of a cycle and win a World Title. They still would be considered the best in the world in that year, but wouldn't get an Olympic title.
I follow wrestling very closely and can think of quite a few great wrestlers that have won World Championships but never medaled at the Olympics. I still think of them have a title equal to an Olympic Championship. If the Olympics happened to fall on the year they won it, they would have an Olympic medal as opposed to "just" a World Championship medal.
Whether her resume deserves the accolades and attention is open to debate. That NYTimes article was basically a character assassination in the hours leading up to her moment in the sun after four years of blood sweat and tears. I didn't expect that from one the country's national papers in the sports department. I expect these hit jobs it in other departments of the Times but the column was over line.
There's no defending the article, that much is for certain. But most non-track fans do not care about what someone does in the World Championships, or Indoor World Championships or even in College, the Olympics is basically the only time a majority of them I would guess would even watch track and field.
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This. Well put. Track and Field athletes will always be judged more on their performance in the Olympics than they will in any other competition.
Well, she could stop posing nude in magazines. I don't hold it against her for trying to get what she can, while she can but to say that she can't help help all this attention she gets is ridiculous.
I think Tebow is an apt comparison. Both have been successful in their careers but their fame comes mostly from things outside of what they've done on the field/track. Both have drawn the scorn of some of their fellow competitors for having more fame than people who are more accomplished than they are.
No. More locally, would anyone even know the name Shawn Johnson if it wasn't for the Olympics? She was the World Champion in 2007. Most people don't remember that.
I don't know who that is but I'll just assume you're strengthening my position.
True, but Shawn Johnson was well know around the country as soon as she made the Olympic team. It didn't take success in the olympics for her to be known or for her story to be told.
Lolo got a lot of attention for being the favorite in the previous games who fell late in the race while in the lead. It is a hazard of hurdling. It is natural that there is still media interest in her after they had gotten to know her and her story at the previous games.
Anybody remember Dan Jansen? He failed at his first two Olympics and the media was all over his story.
TODAY: Angry Lolo Jones Lashes Out At Media - Video | NBC Olympics
Just found this interview with Lolo on nbcolympics.com.
Discusses the article in question. Clearly this article really hurt her, almost came to tears. Worth watching.
Just found this interview with Lolo on nbcolympics.com.
Discusses the article in question. Clearly this article really hurt her, almost came to tears. Worth watching.
Fourth seeded men's beach volleyball team that were knocked out of these Olympics in the Qtrs (Same round they lost in the 2008 Games).
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Pretty sure they are characters from Hamlet, misspelled somewhat. Not sure why that's relevant.
