Abby Wambach said she’s “planning on playing” at the Rio Olympics next summer but needed time to make future decisions on a morning TV show in her native Rochester, N.Y., on Wednesday.
“What’s next for me, my life plan, I haven’t decided about what I’m going to do,” Wambach said (video here). “I’m planning on playing next summer in Rio, but I gotta let my body recover, because that’s the other thing about playing on artificial surface. Seven games is a lot of games [at the World Cup], and it wasn’t a long period of time we were playing over.