Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones has made the U.S. bobsled team. (Franck Fife/Getty Images)

Less than a month after she reportedly tried the sport for the first time, Lolo Jones, an Olympic hurdler in 2008 and 2012, has made the U.S. bobsled team, according to a report Thursday morning from USA TODAY Sports.

Jones, 30, was named to the team as a push athlete, the member of the team tasked with pushing the bobsled at the beginning of the race. She will compete with the team in the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

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She had competed with 16 other potential “pushers” during the summer push championship, in which she finished seventh, and team races, which had wrapped up Oct. 24. She had finished second in a team race Oct. 20.

Jones was reportedly recruited by Todd Hays, the women’s bobsled coach and a 2002 Olympic silver medalist.

Hurdler Lolo Jones is upset with the media criticism she received before even competing. (Michael Steele/Getty Images)

Lolo Jones narrowly missed a medal with her fourth-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles on Tuesday, and Jones emotionally spoke out against her critics in an interview with the TODAY Show on Wednesday.

A recent New York Times’ story compared her to tennis player Anna Kournikova. The story’s premise was that the media attention on Jones stemmed from her looks, not her accomplishments on the track.

Jones, who was leading when she hit the second-to-last hurdle at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, struck back against the article.

“I think it was crazy, just because it was two days before I competed,” Jones said. “And then, the fact that (it’s) from a U.S. media (outlet). They should be supporting our U.S. Olympic athletes, and instead, they just ripped me to shreds.

“I just thought that that was crazy because I work six days a week, every day for four years, for a 12-second race. The fact that they just tore me apart, it was just heartbreaking.

“They didn’t even do the research,” she continued.” Called me the Anna Kournikova of track. I have the American record. I am the American record holder indoors, have two world indoor titles. Just because I don’t boast about these things, I don’t think I should be ripped apart by media.

“I laid it out there, I fought hard for my country. It’s just a shame that I have to deal with so much backlash when I’m already so brokenhearted as it is.”

Jones was uncertain to make the U.S. Olympic team or, later, the Olympic final. She was not expected to contend for the gold medal.

In an interview on HBO’s Real Sports that aired on Tuesday, 29-year-old Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones said that her remaining a virgin is “the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

It didn’t take long for Twitter-philes to jokingly draw a connection between the devout Jones and similarly devout and self-professed virgin Tim Tebow. Kevin Armstrong of the New York Daily News reported that Tebow’s New York Jets teammates even got into the action on Thursday.

For the track/Lolo Jones junkies: When Tebow entered locker room today, several Jets players started chanting, "Lolo! Lolo!"—
Kevin Armstrong (@KevinGArmstrong) May 24, 2012

The Twitter-savvy Jones then had her fun with Tebow as well.

Ask Tebow if he wants a glass of milk. If he says yes, ask him if he prefers chocolate. if he says no, then no more Tebow date suggestions—
Lolo Jones (@lolojones) May 24, 2012