Posted on 07/21/2021 9:34:45 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Earlier this month several women from the US soccer team turned away from the US flag as 98-year-old WWII veteran Pete DuPré played the national anthem on a harmonica.
The US women’s soccer team was playing an exhibition game against Mexico in East Hartford, Connecticut in a pre-Olympic sendoff game before heading to Japan.
The video is included for all to see.
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On Wednesday Sweden stunned the US Womens Soccer Team with a 3-0 victory in the women’s soccer tournament. They’re out.
The US women’s team was just bounced from the Olympics. Via The AP:
The Americans, ranked No. 1 in the world and the favorites to win gold in Tokyo, were riding a 44-match unbeaten streak heading into the match. But Sweden, ranked No. 5, has been the U.S. team’s nemesis of sorts in recent years. The Swedes bounced the Americans from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games in the quarterfinals, the earliest U.S. Olympic exit ever, by making a defensive stand.
This April, Sweden played the United States to a 1-1 draw in Stockholm, which snapped a winning streak dating back to January 2019 when the Americans lost to France in the run-up to the World Cup. It was the U.S. team’s only draw this year.
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I’m a middle-aged guy who, by upbringing and natural inclination, is used to automatically supporting anything from the USA internationally.
I’ve had to re-learn this habit for an increasing number of things. Recent Women’s soccer is one.
Overall its not a good feeling having one’s long-held beliefs and world-view destroyed.
No, I think it was their previous goalie who put a close-up photo of all of her holes on the internet.
Read the GP article. It’s just a bunch of citations from other sources. There is almost nothing written by Jim Hoft in this article.
I know!
Nothing will give me greater pleasure than for these nasty, rude, anti American harpies to get bounced out of the Olympics.
No wonder Ms. Mouthy has taken a job with Subway.
No — it’s just that as usual, GP got it wrong. They had a story that said they were bounced from the Olympic, then changed it. Sweden did bounce the U.S. out of the Olympics in 2016, so apparently whomever wrote that article got confused. I think the article has been edited since.
now a news site:
I’m sorry to say it, but the US women’s soccer team DESERVED to lose and be bounced!!!!
The team features “superstar” Megan Rapinoe, a disgusting “gay” with purple-dyed hair who disrespects our flag!!!! She looks a lot older than her 36 years, and it’s no wonder!!
PHOOEY to them all!!!!
“Overall its not a good feeling having one’s long-held beliefs and world-view destroyed.”
Sums up life in America these days for those over 40.
Too bad that they are not out!! PHOOEY to them!!!!
It used to be that they only would allow U-23s to play soccer in the Olympics.
She’s 36? Wow!
Maybe they should have held off eating their Sandwiches from Subway until after the Game.
Rapinoe looks like she’s 50 at least.
That type of lifestyle eats at a soul - I don’t care what they say publicly about it. They know deep down inside that they are tormented to the core.
return to the US
These are the girls I’m rooting for in the Olympics
Poland - Women’s 4 X 400 Relay Team, they’ve been dominant the last few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uXLhKa4OHg
I hope they get kungflu and monkeypox.
That's men's soccer only. "In the case of men’s Olympic soccer only, FIFA and the International Olympic Committee limit tournament participation to players who are 23 years of age and younger, with only three over-23 selections permitted on each roster."
Good thing they don’t get paid for wins.
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