Championship or 'failure': U.S. women's soccer team out for 2016 revenge

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(Reuters) - After four World Cup titles and four Olympic gold medals, 'failure' isn't a word often associated with the U.S. women's national soccer team - unless, of course, the topic is the 2016 Rio Olympics.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. soccer player Megan Rapinoe poses as she arrives for the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year Awards in New York City, New York, U.S. December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

After winning gold at the 2012 London Games and triumphing at the 2015 World Cup, the Stars and Stripes flew into Rio under enormous expectations but lost to Sweden in a penalty shootout in the quarter-finals. Rapinoe and her team mates bounced back, of course, winning the U.S. their fourth World Cup title in 2019 while becoming celebrated advocates for gender pay equity in their country amid a public battle with the soccer federation.

"To be the first team to obviously do it would be really difficult," said defender Crystal Dunn."It would be incredible - I know after 2016 all of us are hungry to get back out there and really show what this team is all about and compete on the highest stage."

 

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