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Lolo wins gold at bobsled worlds

Lolo Jones

FILE - This Oct. 5, 2012 file photo shows Lolo Jones waiting for her run at the U.S. women’s bobsled push championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. Jones says she’s still planning to compete in hurdles at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Only now, a trip to the 2014 Sochi Games may come first. Jones was one of 24 athletes selected to the U.S. bobsled team Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Lynch, File)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones is officially a winter sports world champ after helping the U.S. win the combined bobsled-skeleton team event in Switzerland Sunday. She and Elana Meyers contributed their efforts to the two-woman bobsled portion of the event as the team held off the Germans by 0.24 seconds to take the title.

Lolo and Meyers finished third in the two-woman sled, former world champ Steve Holcomb, who lost his title earlier on Sunday, finished third during his portion along with brakeman Curtis Tomasevicz, and John Daly was seventh in men’s skeleton.