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|ranked #1 and won the gold in the last two Olympics, most recently with a foreign coach. Now that this [[U.S.]] team is [[politically correct]], will it underachieve?<ref>A foreigner, reportedly a lesbian, was selected as the head coach of the already champion American Olympic women's soccer team in 2007, and in the following year that team repeated its gold medal-winning performance of 2004.  Aren't there American, although perhaps not politically correct, soccer coaches good enough to run the Olympic team?</ref>  Major rivals will be Japan, Brazil and France.
 
|ranked #1 and won the gold in the last two Olympics, most recently with a foreign coach. Now that this [[U.S.]] team is [[politically correct]], will it underachieve?<ref>A foreigner, reportedly a lesbian, was selected as the head coach of the already champion American Olympic women's soccer team in 2007, and in the following year that team repeated its gold medal-winning performance of 2004.  Aren't there American, although perhaps not politically correct, soccer coaches good enough to run the Olympic team?</ref>  Major rivals will be Japan, Brazil and France.
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|Politcal correctness triumphed as the foreign-born reportedly lesbian coach of the U.S. team led them to repeat their previous gold medal performance.  
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|The U.S. women's team advanced to the finals only because of a controversial call that is almost never made in a big game: holding the ball too long by the Canadian goalie.<ref>http://www.thestar.com/sports/london2012/football/article/1238210--london-2012-soccer-controversial-call-against-canada-in-u-s-semifinal-rarely-made</ref>  In the finals the women's team then won the gold by a margin of only goal against an underfunded team from Japan that had to fly to the Olympics in economy class.
 
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