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Don't expect Hope Solo to lose a soccer game with dignity

In what might have been the final major tournament game for the United States national team, goalkeeper Hope Solo uncharacteristically let the soccer ball get past her on more than one occasion.

But when all that added up to a stunning defeat for the Americans, she responded as we might have expected.

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“We lost to a bunch of cowards,” Solo said following the U.S. defeat in a penalty shootout against Sweden in the quarterfinals of the 2016 Olympic Games.