Sure to inspire a future generation, this heartwarming story shows how the women of the U.S. Olympic Track Cycling Team pulled together support from their husbands, families, and innovative small businesses to beat all odds. In a journey beset with budget shortfalls and the near-impossible feat of improving over six seconds in a sport determined by fractions of a second, the girls won a record number of medals in this post-recession 2012 London Olympic Games.—Sky Christopherson