Via Business Insider, here's video of the interview with NBC's Michelle Beadle:

Look: you didn't really think defending Olympic gold medalist Dawn Harper and expected podium finisher Kellie Wells were perfectly happy to play second media fiddle to surprise Olympic competitor Lolo Jones, did you?

But just in case you haven't been paying attention to Harper's and Wells' prickly answers when they've been asked about Jones before, they laid things out for good in a charged Wednesday morning interview on the NBC Sports Network.

"I just felt as if I worked really hard to represent my country [in 2008] in the best way possible," Harper said, "and to come away with the gold medal, and to honestly seem as if, because [the media's] favorite didn't win all of sudden it's just like, 'Were going to push your story aside, and still gonna push this one.' That hurt. It did. It hurt my feelings.

"But I feel as if I showed I can deal with the pressure, I came back, and I think you kinda got to respect it a little bit now."

But if Harper's beef seems to be as much with the media's treatment of Jones as Jones herself, that wasn't the case for Wells.

"I think that, on the podium tonight, the three girls that earned their spot and they got their medals and they worked hard and did what they needed to do, prevailed," she said. "And that's all that really needs to be said."

"Boom!" Harper responded. "Just like that."  Read more