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When the U.S. women's national team finally begins its Olympic campaign in Japan, it will be the massive favorite. There are some good reasons for that, including its No. 1 world ranking and its title as the reigning World Cup champion.

But there's an even better reason: there's just not a ton of competition. With only 12 teams in the entire tournament, many of the best teams in the world won't even be there.

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But if the U.S. wants to reach its fifth-ever gold-medal match, it has to get through a three-game group stage in which merely coming in third place in a four-team group is enough to advance, and then just two knockout games. It's not exactly a robust competition -- the Women's Euros are tougher -- and it will only continue to lose relevance as the Women's World Cup expands to 32 teams in 2023.

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Posted by In The Know

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Posted on 8/2/21 at 12:35 pm to SUB

I’m taking a knee to protest this loss

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Posted by Mr Personality

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Posted on 8/2/21 at 1:22 pm to SUB

Lol she restricted comments on her Twitter and mentioned something about “people trying to dunk on me”

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Posted by dgnx6

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Posted on 8/2/21 at 4:23 pm to SUB

lol another entitled count.

People respond to her stupid article so she turns off her comments or only lets people she follows comment.

Then she goes on to blame right wingers for being anti American and limits those comments too.

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Posted by udtiger

Over your left shoulder

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Posted on 8/2/21 at 7:28 pm to SUB

Lololololololol

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Posted by GoldenGuy

Member since Oct 2015

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Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:50 pm to SUB

I mean, the author is right. It’s a once every four years tournament that’s exactly two years from the World Cup (men’s) and a year off the continental cups (Copa America, Gold Cup, the others in Asia and Africa, but minus Euro for some damned reason). I don’t know why it’s not larger and have more prestige

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Posted by cwil177

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Member since Jun 2011

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Posted on 8/3/21 at 1:11 am to SUB

This is almost as bad as Mexico complaining about the USMNT sending a C team to the gold cup only to lose to said C team.

Little did they realize that C stands for champion