{"id":1497,"date":"2013-10-26T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T18:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2013-10-26T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T18:10:34","slug":"lolo-jones-among-nine-woman-selected-to-us-bobsled-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/10\/26\/lolo-jones-among-nine-woman-selected-to-us-bobsled-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Lolo Jones among nine women selected to US bobsled team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155\" alt=\"lolojonesbobsled\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolojonesbobsled.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolojonesbobsled.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2012\/10\/lolojonesbobsled-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Track stars Lolo Jones and Lauryn Williams are among nine women selected to the U.S. bobsled national team. Jones and Williams will remain in the mix for a spot in the Sochi Games in February.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation CEO Darrin Steele called the team &#8220;the fastest and most prepared group of athletes we&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year I was just soaking everything in. It was an adventure, it was fun, it was nothing really on the line for me,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;It was just kind of an escape and there were no expectations. So now coming into my second year, they expect me to be more knowledgeable and more of a leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elana Meyers will drive USA-1, Jamie Greubel will drive USA-2 and Jazmine Fenlator will drive USA-3.<\/p>\n<p>Jones and Williams are among six women attempting to be the pusher for the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Track stars Lolo Jones and Lauryn Williams are among nine women selected to the U.S. bobsled national team. Jones and Williams will remain in the mix for a spot in the Sochi Games in February. U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation CEO Darrin Steele called the team &#8220;the fastest and most prepared group of athletes we&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}