Lolo Jones reportedly got into a bar fight over the weekend leaving one woman unconscious. According to the New York Daily News, the track-and-field star turned bobsledder got into an altercation with the stepdaughter of Tony Carlino, a U.S. bobsledder legend and a U.S. bobsled official.
The incident allegedly took place at a Lake Placid bar where Jones is currently practicing for with her teammates for next week's National bobsled Push Championship in Calgary. Carlino owns the track where the team has been training.
Fox SportsTonight Radio host, Amy Van Dyken, was the first to report the news. According to Deadspin, the stepdaughter started the altercation after witnesses saw her walk up to Jones and another athlete, bobsledder Aja Evans, and say something to them. Jones reportedly pushed the stepdaughter on the floor and walked out of the bar but the girl followed her out.
Club bouncers separated the women but not before Jones "Knocked out" the stepdaughter, Van Dyken reports. It is also being reported that the woman was "visibly intoxicated."
According to Van Dyken, U.S. bobsled officials and athletes "got together and said, 'No one whisper a word of this.'"
The committee wanted to keep the fight quiet because of all the publicity Jones was getting for the sport. However, USA Today reports that the U.S. Bobsled & Skelton Federation is looking into the altercation.
"We are treating this like we have with any other situation by investigating to see if there is a code of conduct violation," spokesperson Amanda Bird said in an email to the newspaper.
Since switching over to bobsledding Jones has been getting the sport a lot more notoriety but not all of it has been positive. Last month, the athlete ruffled some feathers when she posted a check she received for seven months of bobsledding. The check was for $741.84 and the caption read "I'm going to be a little late on my rent this month."
She said she was trying to shed light on the fact that a lot of athletes don't make millions of dollars like most people assume, but other bobsledders thought her approach was all wrong.
