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Track star Lolo Jones bashes critics after HBO virginity interview

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Lolo Jones may be able to fly over hurdles, but those obstacles are nothing compared with the blowback from her HBO interview.

In a segment earlier this week on ‘Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,’ the comely 29-year-old track star -- a 2008 Olympic contender who looked bound for a gold medal until she got tripped up near the finish line -- said she’s never been able to get a man to commit to her because she’s a virgin and won’t have sex until marriage.

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This touched off a media firestorm that culminated with a TMZ TV segment, complete with ribald puns, ribbing Jones as a goody-two-shoes and even as possibly dishonest about her sex life.

When a fan on Twitter suggested that TMZ had tried to make Jones look like a ‘lying, lonely virgin dork,’ Jones on Friday icily replied: ‘I’ve seen Celebs get teased less for releasing a sex tapes #ironic.’

She didn’t stop there. When another Twitter user suggested that Jones’ cheesecake magazine shots are not in keeping with her Christian faith, she shot back: ‘Go to a museum & look at naked pictures/statues of ppl & its considered art but what I did is not? u see no parts exposed.’

And to those who joked that with her values and sports prowess, she should be dating the religiously devout NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, the biracial Jones replied cryptically: ‘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.’

Jones is currently hoping to nab a medal at the London Olympics that start in late July. Looks like there’ll be more fiery tweets between now and then.

What do you think of Jones and her ‘Real Sports’ interview on HBO?

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