By Daria Belov
This Friday, October 3rd, chiropractor Michael Dorausch, founder of planetchiropractic.com, is one of several sponsors providing funding for the 2008 Ante up for Autism event in Dana Point California. The event features celebrity hosts Jenny McCarthy, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, and many celebrity guests.
The casino style event (which includes a poker tournament) takes place at the St. Regis Hotel in Dana Point, CA on Friday night.
This is the second annual Ante up for Autism event and it has been organized by Talk About Curing Autism (TACA). TACA provides information, resources, and support to families affected by autism. For families who have just received the autism diagnosis, TACA aims to speed up the cycle time from the autism diagnosis to effective treatments.
During the past 10+ years, Dr. Dorausch has authored dozens of news articles on topics related to Autism and Vaccination, controversial topics that often involve great criticism. Jenny McCarthy was first featured in a planetchiropractic.com article in September of 2007, when she was appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show discussing similar topics.
For those attending the event there is an Ante up Poker tournament as well as general admission casino style night taking place. The night also features a silent auction and live auction with items being donated by Andre Agassi, Dean Koontz, Jimmy Carter, and many others.
Besides masters of ceremonies Jenny McCarthy and Lance Armstrong, celebrity guests expected to be attending this event include San Clemente professional skateboarder Ryan Scheckler, pro skateboard veteran Tony Hawk, former NFL quarterback Jim Everett (1989 Rams Most Valuable Player Award), American track and field athlete Lolo Jones, professional mountain bike racer Brian Lopes, and others.
Also attending Ante up for Autism will be professional poker players Michelle Lau (Co-founder and CEO of FIDPA - Federation Internationale de Poker Association), Kenna James (World Poker Tour Canada TV Host), Kristi Blakey, Amir Vahedi, Marcel Luske, and Pamela Brunson. Other well-known poker players are expected to attend.
Planet Chiropractic would like to thank all those supporting and attending this important fund-raising event. We are pleased to be a sponsor and wish TACA all the best in their awareness raising efforts.
Source: Planet Chiropractic
Olympic Hurdler Lolo Jones talks about the 2012 Olympics.
Lolo Jones stayed overseas after her difficult Olympic finals race, where she clipped a hurdle, but now she's back in Iowa. Lolo made her return public, on SoundOff Sunday night.
Moments after stepping off a plane, the Roosevelt alum joined Keith Murphy and Andy Fales in the Channel 13 studios. She says emails from home helped her get through a rough spot, after losing the gold medal at the summer games.
Lolo told Keith that it was hard to face reporters during interviews after the race, but she knew it was important to have a positive outlook. "In the back of my mind, I'm going to learn so much from this. I'm going to come back stronger and then what's even crazier, I thought about four years ago, not even making the team and how I was devastated in that, I grew from that experience. I know it's a long detour but I'm going to grow from this experience," said Lolo.
Lolo says she's hungry for the next Olympics, but she's also ready to start the next track season here at the Drake Relays.
Source: WHO TV
We all felt for the Des Moines native when she fell in the 100-meter final, and her dreams of Olympic gold were dashed.
But Lolo has already picked herself up, dusted herself off, and proved that she is still the world's number one hurdler.
Ten days after the fall in the Olympic final, Lolo Jones of Des Moines, dominated the 100-meter hurdles in Zurich Switzerland.
Lolo Jones said, "I won that race, and that's what I needed to win to show people like look, if I wouldn't have hit those hurdles, Lolo would have come back with a medal."
But on August 19th, Lolo did hit the second to last hurdle, in the lead, 20 meters from Olympic Gold, slipping to 7th place.
She says she was just trying to do too much.
Jones: "I was trying to not only win a medal but i was trying to break the Olympic record."
She didn't, but Lolo certainly set a record for post-race grace and class, in the face of devastating defeat.
Jones: "Everyone knows at some point in their life they've had something that they wanted so bad and maybe they haven't gotten it or they had to work harder for it. I think that's why so many people can relate to what I've been through."
Cards, letters, email, text messages of support; Lolo has loved them all.
Jones: "It helped when i needed it the most."
She's back in Des Moines, not training, taking time off. Eating anything she wants.
She just turned 26; young for a hurdler.
Jones: "for me, 28 to 33, that's when I'll be at my prime."
Primed and ready to run in London in 20-12.
"Keep your spirits up for me Iowans because I'll be back."
Watch a video of the interview here.
Source: KCCI
13 September 2008 - 16:20Wind: 0.3 m/s
Position Lane Bib Athlete Country Mark . React
1 6 34 Josephine Onyia ESP 12.54 . 0.154
2 4 141 LoLo Jones USA 12.56 . 0.128
3 7 65 Delloreen Ennis-London JAM 12.56 . 0.148
4 8 134 Dawn Harper USA 12.67 . 0.182
5 3 66 Brigitte Foster-Hylton JAM 12.76 . 0.137
6 1 22 Priscilla Lopes-Schliep CAN 12.81 . 0.139
7 5 12 Sally McLellan AUS 12.82 . 0.137
8 2 135 Joanna Hayes USA 13.06 . 0.156
LoLo Jones of the U.S., right, and Sally McLellan from Australia clear a hurdle in the women's 100 meters hurdles race at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008.
Lolo Jones of the US smiles during a press conference for the upcoming 6th World Athletics Final at the Mercedes-Benz Arena on September 12, 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany. The IAAF World Athletics Final take place on 13th and 14th September at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Stuttgart.
After a devastating end of an Olympic campaign which included a new personal best 12.43, US champion Lolo Jones showed the class and the heart of a champion.
“If I cannot make it over ten hurdles I do not deserve to be the champion.”
“I want to go home and hide in my house and cry, but I’m just going to go out there and keep running.”
“Racing and winning, that is what I want to do to get over the disappointment.
“I have never won the IAAF World Athletics Final, so that is my goal now.”
After her Brussels appearance tonight, Lolo will take time out for a little fun. She’s heading back to the United States to attend the US Open as a guest of Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman and CEO of one of the world’s largest investment firms, The Blackstone Group.
“I can imagine how crushing this type of disappointment is and I thought that having a trip to New York and watching another great sporting match perhaps might help her refocus onto something positive,” Schwarzman wrote in an email invitation to Jones’ agent, Robert Wagner.
“I have been trying to catch up with the tennis results to see who will actually be in the final,” said Jones of the US Open.
“I am really looking forward to it. I will have a couple of days in New York so I’m also looking forward to going shopping there.”
“I need to keep busy and I didn’t want to travel back home to Baton Rouge because of what has happened with the Hurricane.
“This time, the Hurricane hit Baton Rouge a lot harder than New Orleans. A tree fell down in my front yard and a tree in my backyard and there is no electricity. It’s flooded all around. My brother and my sister have put sand bags all around the house and I really do not want to go back home until the end of the athletics season as it will be too much of a distraction.”
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Source: IAAF
United States' Lolo Jones, right, competes against Australia's Sally Mclellan during the 100 meter women's hurdle event at the Golden League athletic games in Brussels, Friday Sept. 5, 2008.
US LoLo Jones, right, and Spain's Josephine Onyia, left, run the women's 100 m hurdles race at the Athletissima athletics meeting in the Stade Olympique in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008.
Harper, Jones, Powell and Robles look forward to Athletissima 2008 – IAAF World Athletics Tour
0 comments at 9:35 AMLausanne, Switzerland - This afternoon Dawn Harper, Lolo Jones, Asafa Powell and Dayron Robles spoke to the international press on the eve of the Athletissima meeting (Tue 2 Sep), an IAAF Super Grand Prix status meeting as part of the IAAF World Athletics Tour.
Lolo Jones is taking the post-Olympic competitions as a time to redeem for the setback she had in Beijing where she crashed into a hurdle finishing seventh in the Olympic final.
Are you still sad for what happened in Beijing?
“Yes, of course I am very sad but getting back to races I am making up for this disappointment. It was the first time this happened because of my mistake.”
What is your goal for the rest of the season ?
“I want to continue to run faster and improve my PB”.
How was your last race in Zürich?
“I was emotionally drained but at the start I regained my rhythm.”
Source: IAAF
Lolo Jones from the U.S. is seen, during a press conference, a day prior to the Athletissima meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, Sept. 1,2008.
Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones talks to WH about Beijing
By Amy Van Deusen
When we last talked to Lolo Jones in June, the reigning world champ in the 60-meter hurdles told us that she had her sights set on gold at the Olympics. Unfortunately, all didn’t go as planned in Beijing. Jones breezed through the qualifying meets, but tripped on a hurdle in the medal round to finish seventh. But Jones handled the whole thing with class—and sass. Here’s what she had to say about her Olympics.
Our hearts broke for you in the 100-meter hurdles. What went through your head right after the race?
Immediately after I crossed the finish line I felt like someone had just attached an anvil to my body and threw me overboard. I was just literally trying to pick myself up off the track.
How do you feel now, after a week has passed?
The first three days were the worst. Reality sunk in, and then the memory of the race kept haunting me. Doubts and fears entered my mind. Questions like, What if I'm injured for the next Olympics? What if I'm not running fast? At that moment I had to tell myself to stop and to trust God's plan for my future.
What was your favorite moment of the Games?
The moment right before I hit that ninth hurdle! (Laughs)
What was life like in the Olympic Village?
I would compare life there to your first week at college or summer camp. Everyone is meeting new people and getting adjusted. You have to find out where to eat, how to wash your clothes, etc. But there is just an excitement in the air at the unknown future.
Was it hard to stick to your eating/sleep routines in the Olympic Village?
I must admit it was hard to maintain my eating pattern. The cafeteria was open 24 hours a day, and inside the cafeteria they had a full menu of McDonald's--serving nonstop coffee too. So let me get this right... A 24-hour cafeteria to get food, and if you get too tired to eat you can get 24-hour access to coffee to stay up!
Did you get to meet other athletes? Who was your favorite?
I met both the men's and women's basketball teams. I was excited to meet the women's because I went to college with both Seimone Augustus and Sylvia Fowles and haven’t seen them since I graduated. I was actually science lab partners with Simone. My favorite athlete hands-down was Dara Torres. I don't know her personally but she made me laugh a couple of times in conversations.
What's the best souvenir you got from Beijing?
I traded pins! All the athletes get country pins to swap with other athletes and volunteers. My roommate, silver medalist Sheena Tosta, was obsessed with trading. After a week of watching her collect all these unique pins I joined in the madness.
What surprised you the most about the Olympics?
Normally, during the first couple of rounds at any major championship, the stadiums are half full. This was not the case in Beijing. Every round on every day was sold out. It definitely helped to get the adrenaline pumping.
Source: Women's Health