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Flint-area Olympians Geena Gall, Claressa Shields and Lansing's Jordyn Wieber among 4,000 who attended ABC 12's Family Expo Saturday
Shields and Geena Gall are interviewed by ABC 12's Ryan Slocum (right) and Greg Molzon at ABC 12's third annual Family Expo, Saturday, April 13. Chris Aldridge | caldridg@mlive.com GRAND BLANC, MI – Children weaved through crowds of people inside Grand Blanc from MLive.com Read more »
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Peabody Awards lift up a wide sample of broadcast excellence
Claressa Shields, whose path to the Olympics was documented in Radio Diaries' "Teen Contender." (Photo by Sue Jaye Johnson) Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this audio onto your web page. Audio player code: The winners are widely different from each from MPR | Minnesota Public Radio Read more »
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No Endorsements, No Problem: Boxing Gold Medalist Claressa Shields Keeps Fighting
in a safe, and has put the $25,000 of award money in savings. Photographer Zackary Canepari is editing a documentary about Claressa Shields, due out later this year. See the trailer below, and visit the film's homepage here. This story appears in the May/June from Mother Jones Read more »
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Gold Medalist Shields Forced to Compete at Youth Level
Shields of Flint, Mich., is the best female amateur middleweight in the world, with an Olympic gold medal around her neck to prove it. However, despite having already proven her ability on the grandest of stages against full-grown 165-pound adults almost twice from Boxing Socialist Read more »
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Claressa Shields is just your average, everyday 17-year-old Olympic boxing gold medalist (Yahoo! Sports)
she laughs. A trip to the mall, a favorite day out for plenty of 17-year-old girls, is not always so simple for Shields. Claressa Shields doesn't mind the perks that come with being a local celebrity. (AP Photo)"I never thought there would be days I didn't from Yahoo! Sports Read more »
