I'm patriotic and everything, but all this means is that we can all go back to not giving a rat's rear about this boring sport for the next 4 years. Granted, half the reason I was rooting for us to win was to hear the hand wringing and whining of the European "elites" about how we were taking over.
Yeah, I have a hard time following soccer, but when it's World Cup time, it gets my attention.
It's like the Olympics: The event is so huge you just HAVE to pay attention. But for the next three years after that, who cares who won the "World Gymnastics Competition"?