U.S. Women Win Fifth Consecutive Basketball Gold. Will the WNBA Benefit?
The WNBA has struggled to find a place in the crowded landscape of predominantly male sports that rule the best broadcast slots. Could a gold medal be the boost it needs?
Articles from Contributor
Olympic Women’s Boxing Has Its First Champions, and a Generation of Girls Have New Role Models
One by one they shadow-boxed their way into the darkened Excel Arena, spotlights trained on them as if they were heavyweight champions of the world. Six contenders, fighting their way to three history-making gold medals. All the …
U.S. Beach Volleyball Team of May-Treanor and Walsh Win Record Third Consecutive Gold
It’s everywhere you go in London – on signs, on banners, and covering the mats in venues. It’s the shocking pink that is London 2012’s color scheme
Raisman Takes Gold (and Bronze) as U.S. Women Gymnasts End Games on a High Note
In just under two hours, U.S. gymnast Aly Raisman earned two of the last medals awarded in gymnastics at the London Games. But one of them almost wasn’t
After Golden Performances, Douglas Falters in Uneven-Bars Final
After riding a golden high that propelled her to two Olympic gold medals, one in the women’s gymnastics team event and another in the individual all-around competition, Gabrielle Douglas fell to last in the finals for the uneven bars.
After Ending Career with a Gold, Is Phelps the Greatest Olympian of All Time?
U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps closed out his career with an unprecedented 18th gold medal
U.S.’s Golden Day in the Pool: Phelps Wins 17th Gold
Michael Phelps has been doing a lot of smiling lately. In the last lap of the 4x200m freestyle relay on Tuesday, he started smiling. Underwater. Three days later, after definitively claiming his record-setting 17th gold (and 21st …
History-Making High: How U.S. Gymnast Gabrielle Douglas Became the Olympic All-Around Champion
Douglas makes history twice: she’s the first African-American all-around Olympic champion and the first U.S. gymnast to win both that title and the team gold in the same Games
Comeback Kid: U.S. Gymnast Danell Leyva Wins Bronze in All-Around
Leyva leaps from 19th place to earn bronze with a dazzling high bars routine
U.S. Women Gymnasts Win First Team Gold Since 1996
It was the Magnificent Seven that won gymnastics team gold in Atlanta, but appropriately the Fab Five US women earn top team honors in London