{"id":410920,"date":"2024-07-10T01:36:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T01:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410920"},"modified":"2024-07-10T04:07:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T04:07:19","slug":"numbing-moment-superstar-coughed-up-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410920","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Numbing&#039; moment superstar coughed up gold medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To mark 100 days from the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Nine.com.au asked you what your favourite Olympic memories were in a survey. The response was overwhelming! We chose 50 of them to re-live, one a day, before new memories are made in Paris. Scroll on for today&#x27;s memory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/most-memorable-olympic-moments-6gsd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-id=\"4033cc44-8c4b-4837-a4e7-6550e2cd6039\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/4033cc44-8c4b-4837-a4e7-6550e2cd6039\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lolo Jones described it as &quot;shocking&quot; and &quot;numbing&quot; and said she &quot;couldn&#x27;t believe it&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>One moment, the American appeared to be powering to <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Olympic\">Olympic<\/a> gold in the women&#x27;s 100m hurdles at the Beijing 2008 Games. The next, her race was ruined.<\/p>\n<p>She\ufeff exploded out of the blocks and quickly established a comfortable lead \u2014 about as comfortable a lead as possible in an Olympic 100m hurdles final \u2014 but tripped on the second-last hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>All of a sudden, American teammate Dawn Harper was bursting over the finish line as the winner. Australia&#x27;s Sally Pearson claimed silver and Canada&#x27;s Priscilla Lopes-Schliep collected bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Heartbroken, Jones crossed the finish line seventh.<\/p>\n<p>She returned for another shot at gold at the London 2012 Olympics, but failed in her bid for redemption, finishing fourth.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the video at the top of the page to see American Lolo Jones&#x27; heartbreaking moment at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b9117d0a-177e-4ac6-bfc7-8ee4545d8f45\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/b9117d0a-177e-4ac6-bfc7-8ee4545d8f45\" alt=\"Lolo Jones (centre) trips over the second-last hurdle in Beijing.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>To mark 100 days from the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Nine.com.au asked you what your favourite Olympic memories were in a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=410920\" title=\"&#039;Numbing&#039; moment superstar coughed up gold medal\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410924,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410920\/revisions\/410924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/400326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}