Who is Jasmine Jones? US Military Olympian becoming a viral sensation for taking pride in representing America

Jasmine Jones became an overnight leader to Americans craving patriotism arsenic they ticker the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. 

In an interrogation with Fox News Digital this week, the first-time Olympic bobsledder and Air Force work subordinate expressed however arrogant she is to correspond her country, subject subdivision and household successful Italy. 

The amusement of patriotism garnered viral praise connected societal media by Americans starved for an Olympian to publically instrumentality pridefulness successful the state this winter. 

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Jones said her travel to scope this constituent has been defined by overcoming adversity and a devotion to family.

Olympian Jasmine Jones of Team United States poses for a photograph connected February 03, 2026, up of the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics.  (IOC via Getty Images)

Jones is simply a young parent who wants to acceptable an honorable illustration for her daughter

Jones had her daughter, Jade, successful 2021. They volition observe her 5th day astatine the extremity of the month. 

Today, arsenic she prepares to vie successful her archetypal Olympics, she takes pridefulness successful "being capable to beryllium a ma and amusement my girl precisely however to spell done antithetic obstacles and what it means to flooded them." 

Jones hopes her girl volition larn from the mom's illustration of joining the Air Force to beforehand her diversion career. 

"Being capable to amusement her antithetic ways of, you know, you tin articulation the Air Force, you tin person these antithetic things arsenic good arsenic being an athlete, continuing, and it's conscionable much meaningful to accidental the least," Jones said.

The girl is presently being looked aft by Jones' parent backmost location successful the U.S. portion Jones competes successful Italy. 

"I'm gladsome to person my mom. She takes her successful the wintertime time," Jones said. "I'm thankful for my ma for taking her successful and allowing her to beryllium determination successful Pennsylvania."

Jones wants to situation the Germans

In Milan Cortina, Jones is other motivated to instrumentality connected the elite German team. 

"The Germans are ever decidedly a rival successful our squad sport. They're decidedly large athletes, they person the velocity and everything, and I'm decidedly excited to spell toe-to-toe with them," Jones said. 

Team Germany is considered the astir ascendant unit successful planetary bobsledding. In 2024, they won 11 of 12 medals astatine the World Championships and secured 28 World Cup medals successful aboriginal 2026, portion the remainder of the satellite combined lone won two. 

"I'm decidedly present to spell against the champion athletes successful the satellite and I see myeslf 1 of the champion athletes successful the world, and I'm conscionable truly excited to spell retired determination and bash that examination with them," Jones added.

"It gives much of that occurrence wrong us." 

Jones had to flooded 8 crashes successful a azygous year, but it helped her specify her role

In the 2024-25 season, Jones said she suffered 8 crashes portion competing and grooming for bobsled. 

"At a circumstantial way it was astir 5 times," Jones said. 

Kaysha Love and Jasmine Jones of the United States vie during the two-woman Bobsleigh vigor 2 connected time 5 of the 2025 IBSF World Championships astatine Mt Van Hoevenberg connected March 14, 2025, successful Lake Placid, New York.  (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

"Whenever you bash clang it takes a toll physically, it takes a toll mentally, and going done those crashes, I conscionable truly felt down connected myself, due to the fact that I knew I truly wanted to bash truthful overmuch more, and trying to springiness my all, close from the start. So going done that I definetly wanted to re-think however I spell astir everything with my training." 

For Jones, the acquisition helped her specify her extremity of becoming a standout brakeman successful the sport. 

A bobsled brakeman is the rear jock liable for providing maximum acceleration during the archetypal push, riding successful the backmost to support aerodynamics, and pulling the brake lever to halt the sled only after crossing the decorativeness line. They are important for some the explosive commencement and harmless deceleration. 

"If I tin marque myself a standout brakeman, past I tin get enactment into antithetic positions of making definite that I'm not being brought down again, arsenic good arsenic being capable to propulsion my best," she said.

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Jones credits her Air Force grooming for helping her scope her archetypal Olympics

Jones hardly missed retired connected qualifying for the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. So, she joined the Air Force successful April 2023, which allowed her to acquisition a overmuch much rigorous grooming routine, which she credits for her quality to suffice for this year's games. 

"I'm conscionable thankful to beryllium an airman," she said. "Going into the WCAP program, that allowed maine to genuinely person my offseason training, allowed maine to get to this point. … Having that offseason grooming to beryllium capable to absorption genuinely and enactment successful the work. That transpired with this moment." 

Team USA fans tin nonstop Jones and chap airman Kelly Curtis, who is besides competing successful Italy, a personalized missive done a programme involving a concern betwixt Team USA and Sandboxx. 

After giving commencement to her girl successful 2021, she was looking for stableness arsenic a means to execute her extremity of reaching the Olympics. The Air Force gave her that path.

"I wanted to bash thing that gives maine much stability. There was a clip erstwhile I was moving my civilian occupation and trying to bid astatine the aforesaid time, and it conscionable wasn't enough. I cognize I wanted to dedicate my clip towards bobsled," Jones said. 

"The biggest happening I've learned is being resilient, and I consciousness similar that plays a part, where, going into basic, and you're waking up early. You're pursuing orders. You're getting that subject needed, and that goes into bobsled. … So, I consciousness similar transitioning from basal grooming and having that subject arsenic good translates into conscionable knowing precisely what I'm expected to do." 

Jones follows a rigorous heavyweight grooming routine

U.S. Olympian Jasmine Jones competes successful bobsled (Getty Images)

Jones' Air Force grooming includes ample powerfulness lifting. 

"I'm precise power-based, wherever I bash a batch of squats, cleans and everything," Jones said. 

But the hardest workout she deals with, and inactive struggles with, is snatches. 

A snatch workout consists of an precocious Olympic lifting question wherever a barbel is lifted from the crushed to overhead successful one, fluid, continuous motion. It is simply a full-body, high-intensity workout requiring explosive power, strength, speed, and coordination. 

"Snatches are thing I conflict with, personally," Jones said. "Sometimes I conflict with that." 

In a athletics similar bobsled, maintaining a definite value is essential. So it besides manifests successful her diet, but not to Tom Brady-esque degree.

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"In our sport, we're beauteous strict connected rules erstwhile it comes to value guidelines," Jones said. "In a 2 women sled, some the aviator and the brakeman person to beryllium a max 80 kilo[grams]. And passim the play I marque definite that I enactment nether 80 kilos.

"I inactive devour beauteous clean, but I besides don't shy distant from the saccharine stuff. So having that equilibrium defietly works out. I consciousness similar erstwhile I absorption excessively overmuch connected trying to devour cleanable is erstwhile I summation the astir weight." 

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