Olympic track star Lolo Jones trash talked former Rutgers football
player Eric LeGrand on Twitter last night after he joking suggested he
could take her in a race on Twitter.
After LeGrand tweeted to Jones "want to race me?" on Tuesday night,
she replied: "Get Checked for a concussion. Clearly, u've been hit in
the head... Cos u arnt beating a track athlete."
Jones claims she was unaware that LeGrand was paralyzed before
sending out the repose, and thought he was just another football player
with an ego problem.
After others took to Twitter to inform Jones of LeGrand's injures,
she wrote she had no idea who he was and it was just her responding the
same way she normally does to any other athlete.
LeGrand took the high road by tweeting that he understood what
happened and didn't the remark personal. He called the reaction
ridiculous and urged his supporters to get off of Jones's back about the
remark.
LeGrand's story is well known throughout the nation, so one has to wonder how exactly she had never heard of him before.
While playing college football at Rutgers, LeGrand broke two
vertebrae and suffered a serious spinal cord injury in Oct. 16, 2010
during a kickoff play against Army.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed LeGrand to a contact this past May as
a symbolic gesture. His former head coach Greg Schiano is currently the
head coach of the Buccaneers. He has the accomplishment listed on his
Twitter page.
Jones is known for creating controversy in the past, and critics
suggest she receives more endorsements and attention then she actually
deserves due to her past failures at the Olympic Games. She finished
fourth in the 100-meter hurdles at London this past summer and was
seventh four years earlier.
