Tribute to the 2012 Olympic Games
The Women's Games On the 40th Anniversary of Title IX, the women of the USA definitely came to play. For the first time in Olympic history, every nation that competed in the Games had a female athlete on its roster, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei. And Team USA, which boasts a lineup of 529 athletes, had more women than men for the first time in the Olympic Games: 268 are women and 261 are men. A total of 4,688 women represented 204 nations in London this summer. Consider this: The last time London was the Olympic host city in 1948, there were 4,104 athletes and only 390 were women. If Team USA’s women competed as their own nation, they would rank an astounding third in the gold-medal count, tied with Great Britain. The U.S. women won 58 of a total 104 medals, plus contributed to the one tennis mixed doubles medal. Of the 46 gold medals earned by Team USA, 29 were secured by the women. Some women were as young as 15 winning gold medals (Katie Ledecky,