Lolo Jones' American record 60m hurdles delivers world championship in 2010 | NBC Sports

and now back to the track in the 60-meter hurdles final for women and what a field and what a surprising field jenny powell from the united states and next to her will be lolo jones more on jones in a moment her season and personal best 7 84 and 787 respectively certainly going to be a factor in this race as we look at lolo jones trying to become the first woman to defend an indoor hurdle title and she had such a bad start in her semi-final and she kind of clipped over that second hurdle lost her footing a little bit and she is lucky to be in this final in lane three pedric feliciano from canada you've heard me say before don't count her out she has always been in the mix from cuba will be in lane four and next to her world number one also from canada priscilla lopes sleep well that's the woman right now everyone's gunning for she's got the number one time in the world she did a lot of traveling after the outdoor season last year went to colorado with her husband i spoke to earlier so she took some time off spent some time with her family but now she's ready to race another factor of course from jamaica is juanette dixon times not up to her best standard so far this year but a real veteran and from russia when you look at the americans in lanes one and two not great lane drawings but it's because they're semi-final heats they were forced in a golden clark from jamaica in lane eight a deep very talented field you could pick a winner here be very difficult this is one of probably the best 60 meter hurdle fields that i have seen lolo jones fortunate just to be in this final looking to become the first woman ever to defend a world indoor title at this distance powell and jones at the top of your screen good start across the board and it's just a blanket through a couple of hurdles lolo jones in lane two jones with a big lead drives to an easy win where was that where did that come from ladies and gentlemen welcome back miss lolo jones and look at the elation on her face she runs a championship record i believe that's at 771 and shantae howard comes over and gives her love oh and you know what paul i'll tell you right now that this moment for her has been coming for almost two years when she fell in beijing and put that last hurdle she was devastated and then came back last year she had a hamstring injury at drake her outdoor season was very very very shoddy and she just struggled the whole season i interviewed her last week and she said when she hit the hurdle in beijing she had a flashback to her first olympic trial where she hit her hurdle and didn't even make the team she wasn't even in the top ten in the top eight in the us and so she had asked herself how can i become an olympian four years later not only was she an olympian but she was number one in the world and so she got stronger from that so her question after she fell in beijing was well why can't i get even stronger from this and right now she just proved her strength lolo jones is back through the first two hurdles look at this it's a dead heat and then lolo jones just blows the field away she is so quick in between the hurdles brazil elope sleeps had a great start and lolo you heard me say yesterday she is a gainer and it means that the better part of her race comes later she's not great in the first part of the race but she was so quick during those hurdles she walked down that field you see proceed priscilla lopes sleep right here on the lefty screen the red she got out quick but right here to the top right between the second woman in the blue lolo jones look at the determination on her face she spends very little time getting over the hurdle she's so quick in between and paul that's actually a very big win she won by about a foot are you surprised at how easily she won that championship you know that i gotta say that for any athlete to come back after the adversity that she has had look at the determination on her face right she's not even looking at the barriers she is just looking straight ahead she is so concentrated and this is a long time coming for her any athlete coming back from that kind of adversity to put herself back on top lolo jones regains her number one world ranking felician from canada in second and world's number one priscilla lopes sleep also from canada in third but it was all lolo you

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Length: 5min 3sec (303 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 11 2020