Bronze medalist Janelle Bailey steps up her game for big sister

— -- Janelle Bailey remembers tiptoeing into her sister's hospital room at Boston Medical Center nearly four years ago.

Gisele, a 6-foot-3 forward who had landed all sorts of honors in high school and had sorted through more than 70 basketball scholarship offers before arriving at Harvard, was headed for double hip surgery.

Gisele had been battling lupus, and one of her medications had caused the bones in her hips to break down with no chance for regeneration. Surgery corrected the problem, but that was the end of Gisele's basketball career. She never got to play for Harvard and instead became the team manager, a position the 21-year-old still holds as she enters her senior year.

Janelle, now 17, watched. And learned.