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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