Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate

I got a text message from my friend Amani last night. Our conversation went like this:

We then got into a friendly disagreement about football. (Being friends with a Giants fan is really tough when you’re an Eagles fan.)

I think all of here at NWLC are pretty bummed that the Olympics are coming to a close – especially because Team USA’s women have been doing so well. We’re pretty giddy about the Title IX Olympics! Some of us have even been diligently avoiding Olympics results spoilers so we can watch in full suspense during primetime every night.

We’ve also been sharing a lot of animated GIFs with each other of some of our favorite Olympic moments. So I thought, why not give a slightly early close out to the Olympics on our blog with some of those GIFs?

Megan Rapinoe after the US Women’s Soccer team took gold, via @SBNationGif

Happy Friday! Hope you’ve all remembered that today is also the opening day of the 2012 London Olympics. And just in case you haven’t heard it yet, 2012 marks the first time that there are more women on Team USA than men. Team USA totals 530 athletes, 269 of them women. To celebrate this achievement and to tip our hat to the influence Title IX has on this year’s team (in its 40th anniversary year, no less!), we created this graphic and posted it to our Facebook page! Please share it with your friends to spread the good news about Team USA and to support our team in London.

And speaking of the Olympics, it seems like there’s a bit of kerfuffle over what some of the uniforms female athletes will be wearing to compete in. While women were required to cover their legs when first allowed to compete in the 1900 games, these days we typically see things like female beach volleyball players competing in bikinis. Starting this year, female volleyball players are allowed to wear shorts and sleeved tops. Of course, this has sparked some debate and is winding up to be just another step in a long history of concern – often times misplaced concern – over women’s Olympic sporting attire.