# @lolojones on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C5TPdFLub7F
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13618589-lolojones-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-04-03T13:18:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Lolo Jones (@lolojones) — https://gondola.cc/lolojones

## Caption

When I went to my first an Olympic trials, I did not even make the final. Not even top 8 in the U.S. I thought I would never have what it takes to be an Olympian. 

Four years later not only did I make my first Olympic team I was the fastest hurdler in the world. 

In the Olympic finals I hit a hurdle and it cost me Olympic gold. Did it crush me?  Yes and no, see if I had not hit that hurdle I would not have had the grit I needed to try again.  Just like when I didn’t make my first Olympic team I used that pain every day to train harder for four years until I did. 

Sometimes your greatest setback can be your biggest motivator. 

Every major loss I experienced helped give me motivation to fight another day, try a different way. I just kept digging

I am one of the few Americans that is a Summer and Winter Olympian 

My success started with a failure. 

Don’t let your losses discourage you. A failure is not final if you use it as fuel for motivation 

Thank you for coming to my instagram Ted talk 😂😇

#workinprogress #setbacktocomeback #dothework

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