![]() Team USA has, in fact, won every gold medal bar one since President Jimmy Carter boycotted the 1980 Moscow Games, compiling a crushing 56-1 record in the interim. women are undefeated in basketball since winning the bronze medal game of 1992 – two years before reserve center Breanna Stewart was even born. women’s basketball team has a 41-game Olympic winning streak. In truth, women’s soccer had already entered America’s collective consciousness in 1999 – when Brandi Chastain donned a Sports Illustrated cover celebrating in a sports bra after defeating China in the World Cup – and never left.Ī recent Sports Illustrated Olympic preview cover features women’s footie star Alex Morgan, alongside prominent Americans Kevin Durant, Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky.īut of the seven athletes featured on the SI cover, none of them represent the country’s most dominating – yet largely anonymous – team over the past three decades, one whose eye-popping statistic was buried in a one liner under its medals picks: The U.S. The Americans wound up finishing third in the tournament, but Nike planted the seeds which would turn players Hope Solo, Carli Lloyd and Abby Wambach into household names by the time they swept the 2012 London Olympics and 2015 World Cup. ![]() women’s soccer team ahead of the World Cup Finals in China with the tagline “The Greatest Team You’ve Never Heard Of.” Back in 2007, Nike unveiled an ad campaign promoting the U.S.
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