Katie Eberling and Emily Azevedo must be rolling their eyes about right now.
USA TODAY Sports reported Monday that U.S. bobsled brakewoman Lolo Jones has been sick the past couple of days and isolated in her room in the Olympic Village in Sochi, but has been given a clean bill of healthy.
"Just released... been in quarantine room in Olympic village.Single room was nice just wish I had one of those stray dogs to keep me company," Jones tweeted Monday morning.
The bobsled teams don't start training until Friday, and competition begins on Feb. 18.
The hard-luck Olympic hurdler in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Games earned a spot on the U.S. bobsled team and will be paired with the team's No. 3 driver, Jazmine Fenlator. Brakewomen Eberling and Azevedo, who were competing with her for a spot on the Olympic Team, claimed that Jones' inclusion was due more for her popularity than her ability.
Jones, who still is trying to win her first medal, will have an uphill battle with Fenlator. The duo finished no better than seventh place in three World Cup races this year.
Jones was the favorite to win the 100-meter hurdles in 2008 and was leading the race until clipping the ninth of the 10 hurdles, which slowed her to a seventh-place finish. In 2012, she missed out on a bronze by one-tenth of a second.
Multiple media reports have indicated that Jones' track-and-field teammates often shunned her because of her popularity - which included comments about her virginity. She also stirred controversy on the bobsled team when she made fun of the paltry-summed check she received as a member of the bobsled team from the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federatation.
But her Winter Olympic teammates have seemed to embrace her more warmly than her Summer Olympic teammates.
U.S. ice dancer Alex Shibutani posted a photo with tweet that read: "@lolojones has been sick so this is as close as I'll let her get to me. #LOLButSeriously #SochiSelfie #Sochi2014."
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