{"id":612658,"date":"2021-08-05T11:51:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=612658"},"modified":"2021-08-05T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:51:28","slug":"u-s-womens-soccer-falls-short-of-expectations-takes-bronze-medal-at-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-womens-soccer-falls-short-of-expectations-takes-bronze-medal-at-tokyo-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Women\u2019s Soccer Falls Short Of Expectations, Takes Bronze Medal At Tokyo Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-womens-soccer-falls-short-of-expectations-takes-bronze-medal-at-tokyo-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=612658&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332473828.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Team USA women\u2019s soccer is finished in Tokyo after narrowly beating the Australian team, 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>Although the team was expected to bring home a gold medal, they will settle for the bronze \u2014 the first medal the United States has won in women\u2019s soccer since the 2012 London Olympics. They lost to Sweden in the semifinal round in Rio in 2016, knocking them out of medal contention.<\/p>\n<p>Before 2012, the team won four of the five gold medals given out since women\u2019s soccer became an Olympic sport in 1996, missing the top step of the podium only once, at the Sydney Games in 2000, when they took silver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team wasn\u2019t standing atop the perch it expected, nor were the medals around the players\u2019 necks the color they hoped, but they made an important return to the podium after failing to get there in 2016 for the first time,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/chicago\/tokyo-olympics\/us-womens-soccer-team-defeats-australia-win-first-bronze-medal\">NBC News reported Thursday<\/a>. \u201cIt was two of the team\u2019s gold-medal-winning veterans who helped get them there Thursday. Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd each scored two goals to lead the U.S. to a 4-3 win over Australia in the bronze medal game at the Tokyo Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd did make some Olympic history of her own, scoring her&nbsp;ninth career Olympic goal, \u201ctying her with Abby Wambach for most all-time for the U.S. women\u2019s soccer team,\u201d NBC noted.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe said, after the team lost to Canada earlier this week, putting them out of reach of a gold medal, that the color of the medal was irrelevant as long as the team returned to the medal stand. That said, Team USA was, at one point, expected to dominate the world in Tokyo and, ahead of the Games, headlines demanded to know whether the road to gold in Japan was \u201ctoo easy\u201d and \u201ctoo small\u201d for the American women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the U.S. women\u2019s national team finally begins its Olympic campaign in Japan, it will be the massive favorite. There are some good reasons for that, including its No. 1 world ranking and its title as the reigning World Cup champion,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/womens-olympic-tournament\/story\/4433085\/are-olympics-too-easy-and-too-small-for-womens-soccer\">ESPN crowed<\/a>. The other \u201cgood reason\u201d is that, because the Olympics has no qualifying tournament for women\u2019s soccer, most of the major teams \u2014 particularly the teams from Europe \u2014 are preparing for the much harder women\u2019s European Championships (the men\u2019s Euro championships happened back in early July).<\/p>\n<p>ESPN suggested that the Americans could dominate, simply because the Olympics has only 12 women\u2019s soccer teams competing.<\/p>\n<p>The American team also entered the Olympics under controversy. A force for \u201csocial justice\u201d in the states, the US women\u2019s soccer team was expected to lead efforts to protest and demonstrate against racism and oppression. Ahead of their first game against Sweden, they took a knee in solidarity with anti-racism efforts across Europe, but quickly lost that match \u2014 an embarrassing development that appeared to force the US team to re-prioritize.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the team said, on social media that they were, \u201c[h]<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">eaded home with a medal! Proud of our fight, proud of our response.<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&nbsp;Proud of our fight, proud of our response.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA women\u2019s soccer is finished in Tokyo after narrowly beating the Australian team, 4-3.Although the team was expected to bring home a gold medal, they will settle for the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}