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On today's show, teen contender, then and now.

Boxing has been an Olympic sport since the time of the ancient Greeks, but for most of that history,

it's been just for men.

That changed in 2012 at the Summer Olympics in London.

Women boxers were finally allowed to compete and one of the women who made history that year

was a teenager from Flint, Michigan.

Before her gold medal in London, Clarissa Shields was a high school student

training in a basement gym in Flint, even in boxing circles, few people knew her name.

But that's when I met her through my wife, Sujay Johnson, she's a writer and photographer,

and she was documenting women boxers at the time, some of the women who might go on to compete

in the Olympics. We asked Clarissa if she would keep an audio diary as she was training in the

months before the Olympic trials. Today at the age of 25, Clarissa is considered the Muhammad Ali

of women's boxing, and we'll bring you a story about that later in the show.

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