Claressa Shields: Female Fighter From Flint
Friday, October 19, 2012 at 6:27PM
Alphachimp in PopTech 2012, PopTech 2012, resilience
Claressa Sheilds

Boxer Claressa Shields, age 17, clawed her way out of hardscrabble Flint Michigan to win the first ever Olympic gold medal for women’s middleweight boxing.

She has won 31 fights -- and lost only one. “That fight made me work so much harder when I got back to the gym, even though I cried and I was sad. It made me hungrier.”

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