Ann Killion: Amid 40th anniversary of Title IX, women set new standard in London

LONDON -- Sixteen years ago, we had an American sorority party in Atlanta. At those 1996 Olympics, the U.S. women's teams won gold medals in softball, soccer, gymnastics and basketball. Those Games were deemed the "Summer of the Women" and were taken as a ringing validation of Title IX -- the first generation born into a world where women were legally granted equal access to sports was reaping the dividends.