Mike Brudenell of The Detroit Free Press reports:
This once-proud automotive town, which has been sucker-punched and fiscally battered and bruised over the past decade, got a hero on Wednesday.
On the other side of the Atlantic, a teenage girl warrior struck a blow for Flint.
In the boxing ring at the London Olympics, 17-year-old Claressa Shields, a student at Flint Northwestern High, won a middleweight gold medal against a Russian woman almost twice her age.
She also captured the hearts of a city suffering from a black eye and low esteem.
