Lolo Jones, OVER IT: How to Face Life’s Hurdles with Grit, Hustle, and Grace
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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"I learned how strong I was. I learned that I'm a fighter. I learned that failure is never going to break me." Olympic runner and bobsledder Lolo Jones joins Zibby to discuss her new memoir, Over It, and the importance of reckoning with her recent past. Lolo shares how reading has always served as inspiration for her, the ways her approach to health and fitness have changed over the course of her career, and the peace she found when she realized reaching her goal of winning an Olympic medal was not nearly as significant as the effort she puts into herself.
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| 0:40.0 | Lolo Jones is the author of Over It, How to Face Life's Hurtles with Grit, Hustle, and Grace. Lori, quote, |
| 0:46.2 | Lolo Jones, born August 5th, 1982, is an American hurdler and Bob's Letter, who specializes |
| 0:52.8 | in the 60-meter and 100-meter hurdles. |
| 0:55.6 | She won three NCAA titles and garnered 11 All-American honors while at Louisiana State |
| 1:01.2 | University. She won indoor national titles in 2007, 2008, and 2009 in the 60-meter hurdles |
| 1:07.6 | with gold medals at the World Indoor Championship in 2008 and 2009. |
| 1:12.7 | In bobsled, she won the 2021 IBSF World Championships as the breakwoman for Callie Humphreys. |
| 1:19.4 | She was favored to win the 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but tripped on the |
| 1:25.6 | penultimate hurdle, finishing in seventh place. |
| 1:28.7 | She went on to win gold at the 2008 World Athletics Final, beating the newly crowned |
| 1:33.4 | Olympic champion Don Harper with the time of 12.56. |
| 1:37.5 | Lolo was the American record holder in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.72 until 2018 |
| 1:43.9 | when both Kendra Harrison and Sharika Nelvis improved the time of 7.72 until 2018 when both Kendra Harrison and Sharika |
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