LoLo Jones Wins 100m hurdles! by Larry Eder

Lolo Jones, 2010 USA Champs, 100 meter hurdles, June 26, 2010, photo by PhotoRun.net.

If you want to see events where the competition is always there, watch the 100 meter hurdles
races. Along with the men’s shot put and the men’s 110 m hurdles, these events have the best in the world competing against each other, weekend after weekend.

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The 100m hurdles are races of precision. If you are off just one step, there is catastrophe.
If you push as you feel someone moving along side you, there is catastrophe.

LoLo Jones won the US indoors this season in Albuquerque. Then, she went to Doha, Qatar and won the 2010 World Indoor Champs. In April, LoLo came to her hometown, Des Moines and took second in the Drake Relays hurdle race to Damu Cherry.

About 3 pm today, just a bit late of the scheduled start, LoLo Jones got out well, with Kellie
Wells and Damu Cherry alongside halfway, and from there, LoLo Jones took off, giving us
an example of fine hurdling and sprinting, not missing a beat over the last four hurdles, running away from the field with her time of 12.69, into a -2.1 wind!

LoLo Jones won the hurdles today, with Kellie Wells in second in 12.84, Damu Cherry in third in 12.86 and Ginnie Powell in 12.90 in fourth and Tiffany Ofili in fifth in 13.04!

LoLo Jones not only won in front of her home crowd, she has both indoor and outdoor titles in 2010, plus the world indoor title! Congrats to LoLo Jones!

After the race, LoLo Jones thanked the home crowd and fans for their support today!

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 51-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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