Multi-sport Olympian Lolo Jones is calling out USA Bobsled for allegedly failing to provide her with adequate medical care, resulting in a loss of bladder control and a broken back.
“Why I’ve been off social for so long…For months, I couldn’t talk about this,” Jones, 43, posted via X on Monday, July 27. “Please someone help stop what they are doing at USA Bobsled.”
Jones urged her followers to read a story published last week by Zielhaus, an independent publication covering bobsled and skeleton.
It is alleged that Jones was injured in March 2025, days before the World Championships in Lake Placid, New York, while testing a new sled in a new racing position.
Jones allegedly suffered “brutal lower-back pain, numbness, leg instability, foot drop, loss of bladder control.”
“I was never even given an X-ray or an MRI,” Jones claimed via X of the alleged experience and treatment — or lack thereof — she received in the wake of her alleged injury. “I wasn’t even allowed to use the ice bath to numb the pain. I did not even know my spine was seriously injured. I just knew I was in pain.”
According to the Zielhaus story, Jones scheduled a massage at Olympic Training Center’s sports medicine clinic — an appointment she claims was abruptly taken off the books.
“The appointment had been canceled,” the story claims. “No written explanation. Nobody at the [U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee] has ever provided her one.”
Despite the pain, Jones raced in the 2025 World Championships, with the Americans finishing 6th.
After returning home, Jones allegedly paid for an MRI herself, leading to a devastating diagnosis — the athlete had a herniated disc with a disc bulge, tears in her L3, L4 and L5 vertebrae and spinal fluid leaking out.
Jones argued that if her bobsled pilot had crashed during training or at the World Championships, she would “be paralyzed today.”
Us has reached out to USA Bobsled and the USOPC for comment.
“I’ve been reading everyone’s comments and support,” Jones wrote via X on Tuesday, July 28. “It took me months for me to speak about this. Thank you to everyone for the messages. USOPC and USA Bobsled have a duty of care. I never want an athlete to experience what I did.”
Jones represented Team USA in bobsled at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, after previously representing the Americans in track & field at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2012 Olympics in London.
She is just one of 11 athletes to represent Team USA at the Olympics in different sports.
