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The US women simply don’t lose. The number of losses in the Olympics or World Cup since the dissolution of the Soviet sports machine can be counted on one hand, and you’d have fingers left over.
A win here would clinch their seventh straight Olympic gold medal. They’ve won 54 straight games at the Games.
Yes, I’m the guy who wrote the story exploring alternate ways to define each country’s performance in the Games, whether it’s ranking teams by total medals, gold medals, a points system, a per capita system in which San Marino is utterly crushing it.
There’s a correct answer that I will reveal at halftime.
Related: Team USA top the Olympic medal table. Or is it China? Or … San Marino?
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