Lolo Jones is not backing down after a harrowing experience with Team USA.In February 2025, Jones climbed into a team-issued bobsled at the Olympic training complex in Lake Placid, New York.The U.S.
team was testing equipment before the World Championships.The sled accelerated down the ice at speeds approaching 90 mph.At the bottom of the track, Jones knew something was wrong.Her lower back burned.
She could not bend over.She had lost control of her bladder."I’ve never had that happen to me ever in (my) life," Jones said.
"I immediately went up to the athletic trainer and told him what was happening."Jones was no inexperienced athlete struggling to read her body.She competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics as a hurdler and the 2014 Winter Olympics as a bobsled brakewoman.
She had won world championships in both sports.She understood pain.This felt different.Lolo Jones of Team United States poses for a portrait during the Team USA Beijing 2022 Olympic shoot on Sept.
12, 2021, in Irvine, Calif.(Getty Images for Team USA)SIMONE BILES RETURNS TO HOSPITAL FOR PROCEDURE WEEKS AFTER 'ALMOST DYING' IN 'MEDICAL EMERGENCY'A trainer arranged a treatment for her, but Jones says the head of sports medicine at the Lake Placid training center canceled it because she had already received treatment that week.Jones arrived for the appointment without knowing it had been canceled.She was hurt, frightened and days away from the biggest race of the season. TENNESSEE COACH UNLOADS ON NCAA'S 'BULLS–T', AFTER STAR LINEBACKER SUSPENDED FOR OUTDATED RULELolo Jones of the United States looks on after competing in the Women’s 60m Hurdles during the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on February 04, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts.
(Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)Then Jones received notice that officials had revoked her access to sports medicine, she says, and a broader ban later kept her out of the Olympic training facility, including its rehabilitation areas, weight room, housi...