The U.S. Women's Track cycling team made up nearly 6 seconds in the 3 months prior to the London Olympics in a sport where races are won by tenths or hundredths of a second.
This was the first U.S. Women's Track Cycling Team's Olympic medal in over 20 years.
When Lance Armstrong and teammates were banned from the 2012 London Olympics, America's hope for a cycling medal shifted to this group of underdog women cyclists.