Lolo's Back?!

I'm watching a live stream of the two-woman bobsled races at the Winter Olympics as I type this - it's hard to manipulate two reduced browser windows, let me tell you -  because I won't be able to watch it on tape later tonight.  I was amazed at how well the Australian team did.

"Steve, that's the Austrian team!"

Yeah, them as well.  

I kid you not, there's an Australian women's bobsledding team.  But why should be that a surprise?  Although Australian winters in July and August are mostly like winters in southern California, Australia does have mountains,  and the higher elevations on the continent-nation's peaks do see snow while we in the Northern Hemisphere complain about the summer heat.  They also have skiing in the Australian Alps.  So - there!

But how did Brazil get to send a women's bobsled team to Sochi?

But that's not . . . what I came . . . to talk about . . . today! No.  I bring up this event because Lolo Jones, the anti-heroine of the 2012 Olympics in London who undistinguished herself with underperforming on the track and with graceless comments during and after those Games, is the brakewoman for sled USA-3.  Some commentators thought she was chosen for her celebrity status, but Team USA insists she was chosen for her athletic prowess.  (Another track star, Lauryn Williams - who originally suggested to Jones that she consider bobsledding - is on the team, albeit in a different sled than Jones.)

USA-3 is now in eleventh place after two runs with two more to go.  And Lolo has already been making news with her silly and almost stupid wisecracks.  She's complained about the food and the abnormally warm weather.  Apparently, the latter is keeping her from wearing her really cool winter gear!

I hope she's only kidding.