Championship or 'failure': US women's soccer team out for 2016 revenge

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.

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."We have very high standards for the team, which is championship or, you know, it's total failure," forward Megan Rapinoe told reporters at the Team USA media summit on Wednesday."So, you know, we felt like total failures.

But casting away the demons of five years ago will involve overcoming historic precedent: In the 25 years since women's soccer was added to the Olympic programme, no World Cup winner has gone on to successfully defend the title at the next Games.

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