From Homeless to Hero: US Olympian Lolo Jones


	From Homeless to Hero: US Olympian Lolo Jones

dulios

8-19-2008 6:37 PM

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olympics, poverty, homelessness, sports

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8-19-2008 9:43 PM

dmegivern

Awesome!

8-19-2008 10:43 PM

hitchhiker08

Kudos to her and her indomitable spirit....

8-30-2008 9:44 AM

Kauaiguy

I felt terrible about her loss at the Olympics. She was clearly the favorite.

8-30-2008 12:58 PM

dmegivern

It was very hard to watch. I wanted her to at least medal. But the winner is from East St. Louis, and as my husband and I can personally attest from our familiarity with that city, it may be worse than being homeless in Des Moines to have grown up there in a home.

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He could tell sometimes by the way Lori "Lolo" Jones dressed. Or by how she no longer had the bike she rode to practice. Or by how she didn't want to be dropped off right in front of her house when he gave her a ride home.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-olylolo13-2008aug13,0,2659271.story"><DIV>In a sense, Jones was homeless the first 18 years of her life in Des Moines, bouncing from apartment to apartment, school to school, because her single mother had five kids and no money for the rent. 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