US Female Olympians Have Won More Medal Points Than All But Four Countries | Mother Jones: As we enter the last weekend of the 2012 London Olympics, American sports fans—especially women's sports fans—should be feeling pretty darn good. On Thursday, the US women's soccer team defeated Japan to secure their third consequtive gold medal victory. Seventeen-year-old Claressa Shields took home the United States' first gold in women's boxing in the event's inaugural year. And we are still reliving Gabby Douglas's historic victory in gif form at least once a day. So it seems like a good time to take stock of just how far we've come since the first "boys-only" modern Olympics in Athens in 1896—and just how impressive America's female Olympians are.
