The team famously crashed out in the quarter-finals to Sweden at the Rio Games. But they have learned valuable lessons since then
If the US are going to become the first team to win a Women’s World Cup followed by Olympic gold, we now know the squad that will do it. But how does the current squad compare to the one that crashed out at the 2016 Olympics for the USWNT’s worst-ever major tournament finish? Here is a look at how the 2021 squad competing at the Tokyo Olympics stack up against the 2016 group.
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