LONDON (AP) — Abby Wambach hopped down from the second-place spot on the podium at last summer’s World Cup already envisioning a rematch with Japan a year later in London — for Olympic gold.
She was right.
Penalty kicks were all that separated the Americans and Japanese that day in Frankfurt, Germany.
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