Women’s Soccer 3-Peats For Gold

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After winning the gold Olympic medal in 2004, the U.S Women’s Soccer team never wanted to know what it felt like to not carry the first place medal. Thursday’s game proved that they still have gold fever.

The U.S. Women’s soccer team won 2-1 against Japan to take the gold medal on Thursday. This game was all about midfielder Carli Lloyd of team USA. Lloyd scored both goals for the U.S., scoring in the eighth and 54th minutes of the game as she helped bring the gold medal to her team.

Lloyd has a record of making the game winning shot in the Olympics. She scored the game winning goal in the gold medal game against Brazil in the 2008 Olympics.

“I think I just come up big in big moments. That’s what I’ve trained for,” Lloyd said. “I worked my butt off day-in and day-out. I don’t think there’s anybody that works harder than I do. I was on a mission this Olympics to prove everybody wrong, and that’s what I did. To show everybody that I belong on the field.”

The U.S. was given a run in the 83rd minute of the game as goalie Hope Solo flung herself in front of a shot by Mana Iwabuchi to avoid the point that would have tied the game. This is now the third straight gold medal for the team giving the U.S. their chance to avenge the World Cup loss to Japan last summer.

“The Olympics is a perfect platform in terms of what life is,” U.S. team co-captain Abby Wambach said. “You cannot win at everything you attempt in life. You have to be willing to fail and fall flat on your face in order to get glory. And we really did fail last year, in our opinion. We have to give Japan credit. They’re a fantastic team. But anything less than winning for us is a failure. And we worked tirelessly all year long to prove that we still can win and we are still champions.”