Missy Franklin

• Missy Franklin didnt let a heavy heart slow her down. The 17-year-old swimmer, already a member of a bronze-winning relay team on Saturday, won the womens 100-meter backstroke today, making her first individual Olympic medal a gold one.
(Entertainment Online)
• U.S. high school student Missy Franklin swam a U.S. record in the women's 100-meter backstroke to take gold from Emily Seebohm, an Australian who overcame swine flu last year to reach the Olympic Games in London.
(Bloomberg)
• LONDON -- Missy Franklin stared out on the horde of reporters, suddenly sounding very much like a high school senior-to-be. I dont like being up here alone, she said nervously.
(ESPN)
• LONDON – An hour after the medal ceremony, someone asked Missy Franklin where she was keeping her brand-new Olympic gold medal. Franklin flashed her signature smile and giggled.
(USA Today)
• LONDON — Missy Franklin won a gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke final in her first bid for an individual medal at the Olympic Games, swimming 58.33 with an incredible finishing kick here Monday night.
(San Jose Mercury News)
• China stretched their lead at the top of the Olympic medal table on Monday as American swimming sensation Missy Franklin lived up to the hype with her first gold of the Games.
(YAHOO!)
• LONDON — It sure is a good thing these are the Summer Olympics, because otherwise, Missy Franklin might have had to skip a week or two of high school to be here.
(NJ.com)
• LONDON -- The kid was barely out of the pool, droplets still falling from her outrageously pearly earrings and brightly painted nails, when she first considered what had just happened. Missy Franklin laughed and laughed.
(Los Angeles Times)