After recovering emotionally from her third Olympic Games, Lolo Jones is starting to prepare for her run at an unprecedented fourth Olympics in eight years.
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Olympictalk.nbcsports.com reported that Jones has rid herself of her fatigue from competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in the women's bobsled and now is focused on her primary event - the 100 meter hurdles - with an eye toward the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Jones participated in three hurdles events in three continents last week to show her love for her sport.
She won a 100-meter hurdles race in Marrakech, Morocco with a season-best 12.74 seconds, 0.31 second off her personal-best 12.43 seconds in the semifinals of the 2008 Seoul Games. She then did a publicity stunt for a China in which she competed in an exhibition race against a television show local celebrity. Less than 24 hours later, Jones finished third at the Adidas Grand Prix in New York on Saturday with a time of 12.77 seconds.
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Jones told Olympictalk.nbc.com that she needed about two months to recover from the Winter Games, physically, to refocus her attention to track and field.
"When I got done (in Sochi), physically, I was ready to keep going, but mentally, I was drained," Jones said to olympictalk.nbcsports.com. "I kept telling my coach I don't have any motivation. There's really no point for this track season. There's no World Championships. There's nothing on the line. I'm having a hard time getting refocused. So it took me like two months to really get energized. It wasn't really until I started competing, I was like, well, my goal for this year will be to compete against myself this year, have a personal best."
If Jones were to make the team, she would be the first American to compete in three Olympics in her main event, the 100-meter hurdles, since Gail Devers competed in the 100 meters in five Olympic Games from 1988-2004.
Jones' personal best came in the semifinal heat of the 100-meter hurdles at the Seoul Olympics in 2008. She clocked a time of 12.43 seconds, which was 0.11 seconds faster than the winning time in Seoul after Jones tripped over the ninth of 10 hurdles.
Jones then finished fourth at the 2012 Olympics in London, with Australia's Sally Pearson winning with a time of 12.35 seconds.
Since coming over from the bobsled, Jones has lost 25 pounds in preparation for track and field.
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