U.S.Olympian and world champion track star and bobsledder Lolo Jones says the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and USA Bobsled "risk[ed] permanent paralysis" after mistreating her serious back injuries, which she competed with.Jones broke a year-plus-long hiatus on X to share a story from Zielhaus that she "couldn't talk about," which explained her injuries, lack of treatment and eventual suspension from the Olympic Training Center.The piece said Jones broke her back during a "race-off for the USA 1 brakewoman seat" in Lake Placid, New York, "days before the 2025 World Championships." Jones suffered "brutal lower-back pain, numbness, leg instability, foot drop, loss of bladder control."CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMElana Taylor Meyers and Lolo Jones of the United States compete during heat 1 of the two-woman bobsleigh at the 2025 IBSF World Championships at Mt Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, N.Y., on March 14, 2025.
(Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)Jones then had a massage scheduled with the Olympic Training Center's trainer, but the appointment was "canceled" by John Faltus, a "top official at the USOPC medical clinic," because Jones was "only entitled to one massage per week and had already received one that week," the piece said."I was never even given an X-ray or an MRI.I wasn’t even allowed to use the ice bath to numb the pain.
I did not even know my spine was seriously injured.I just knew I was in pain," Jones said in an X post.Jones later raced in the World Championships with what was later diagnosed as a herniated disc with a disc bulge and tears in her L3, L4 and L5 vertebrae.
She also had spinal fluid leaking out.But she says she avoided a life-altering mishap, saying the organizations "nearly paralyzed me."Lolo Jones speaks onstage at the USA House at Paris 2024 on Aug.9, 2024, in Paris, France.
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