re: Hope Solo Suspended 6 Months...what did she do that was so wrong??

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While not-really-robbed swimmer Ryan Lochte has since taken the spotlight off Solo’s controversial comments following the US women’s soccer team’s Olympics ouster, in which she called the Swedish team “a bunch of cowards” for the defensive playing style they employed in the quarterfinal, the goalie’s teammates are not letting her live it down.

Veterans Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan, with varying degrees of frustration, have spoken out against Solo’s immature, unsporting rant — perhaps an indication of a pent-up divide inside the team against Solo, a lightning rod for years for her prodigious talents and abrasive, criminal tendencies.

“I mean, really disappointed, to be honest,” Rapinoe said in an interview on NBC Sports on Thursday, via USA Today, when asked about how she reacted to Solo’s words. “That’s not our team, that’s not what this team has always been, that’s not what this team will be in the future. … We’re gracious, we’re humble and we play the game a certain way — whether we win or lose. And we’ve been on the winning side quite a bit, and when we find ourselves on the other side, we need to handle that graciously — and unfortunately that wasn’t the case.”

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In an interview with USA Today, Morgan tweaked Solo, ever so subtly, saying: “I feel like those are opinions I don’t share.”

Neither does Abby Wambach, the longtime face of US women’s soccer, who showed up — subtweeted, you might say — Solo with her compliments for former coach Pia Sundhage and the Swedes after their impressive upset.

Congratulations to Pia and the Swedish team for reaching the final. It's never how you get there, just as long as you do. #respect

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