breakingnews: US, Japan women’s soccer teams battle for Olympic gold The highly anticipated gold medal women’s soccer game between the U.S. and Japan has just concluded. The game is a rematch of last year’s World Cup final, which Japan won in a penalty shootout.Japan is trying to become the 1st team to win the World Cup and Olympic titles in back-to-back years. The U.S. is vying for their 4th Olympic gold medal and 3rd straight. The final drew a crowd of 80,203 to Wembley Stadium, the largest ever to see a women’s soccer game at the Olympics. View results on BreakingNews.com.Photo: Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. fights for the ball against Japan’s Aya Sameshima. (Mike Blake / Reuters) Japan played really well tonight. They stayed calm, and played technical game. It’s just a lot of bad luck that they didn’t get the 2 penalty kicks they deserved for that handball and then Buehler bearhugging players from the back in the box. And I really appreciate the spectators at Wembley Stadium booing Sepp Blatter. That really made this tournament that much better. Congratulations to Canada, Japan, and USA!
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US, Japan women’s soccer teams battle for Olympic gold

The highly anticipated gold medal women’s soccer game between the U.S. and Japan has just concluded. The game is a rematch of last year’s World Cup final, which Japan won in a penalty shootout.

Japan is trying to become the 1st team to win the World Cup and Olympic titles in back-to-back years. The U.S. is vying for their 4th Olympic gold medal and 3rd straight.

The final drew a crowd of 80,203 to Wembley Stadium, the largest ever to see a women’s soccer game at the Olympics. View results on BreakingNews.com.

Photo: Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. fights for the ball against Japan’s Aya Sameshima. (Mike Blake / Reuters)

Japan played really well tonight. They stayed calm, and played technical game. It’s just a lot of bad luck that they didn’t get the 2 penalty kicks they deserved for that handball and then Buehler bearhugging players from the back in the box.

And I really appreciate the spectators at Wembley Stadium booing Sepp Blatter. That really made this tournament that much better. Congratulations to Canada, Japan, and USA!

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