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Canadian Women’s Soccer Loss To USA Has America’s Entire Hat Complaining

thestar – Melissa Tancredi wanted to get on the bus. She couldn’t trust herself to talk. But after being robbed of a chance for a gold medal — in what was the equivalent of pilfering the chalices from one of the sport’s cathedrals — she couldn’t walk away. She returned, face twitching, eyes red-rimmed and wet. “I couldn’t believe what happened,” Tancredi said, jaw working side to side. “That was our game. That was our win. And it was just taken away. So …” She let that “So” trail off. Canada will be thinking about that “So” for a long time. Monday’s Olympic semifinal at Old Trafford was probably the best game of women’s football ever played. Canada lost 4-3 after added extra time. The key player? Norwegian referee Christina Pedersen. Canada took the lead three separate times through three Christine Sinclair goals of exponentially expanding skill. It was a triptych that ought to be hanging over a Flemish altar. “We feel like we didn’t lose, we feel like it was taken from us,” Sinclair said. “It’s a shame in a game like that that was so important, the ref decided the result before it started.”

Whether it’s the Canadian coach complaining that the US uses “illegal” tactics or Canadian celebrities bitching about losing on Twitter, America’s hat just couldn’t accept the truth for what it was: they lost. We won. And we’re going to always win because we’re always going to be better than Canada. Complaining about the refs when you lost to a team that has been in every Olympic final since the sport began is like Bryon Russell complaining that Jordan pushed off on his final shot. We’re America — when you’re the best you’re gonna get calls.

Oh I see why the Canadians are so upset — they don’t win anything. Nevermind the fact that they showed up to the Olympics looking like they were trying to not get laid for the next few weeks, they actually managed to only win ONE gold medal so far. ONE. Cuba, Belarus, and IRAN have more gold medals than Canada. You know, I’m not so sure they’re even up for the task of being our hat anymore.

Tell that juicing soccer monster hat trick chick Christine Sinclair that if she ever wants to play for a champion she can drop the poutine for a cheeseburger and live among purple mountains majesties.

BRING ME JAPAN.

By maurice posted August 7th, 2012 at 10:13 AM

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by baconbit on August 7, 2012 at 10:22 am
Don't win anything except Gold in hockey.
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by asdfasdf1919 on August 7, 2012 at 10:25 am
A couple of lessons to be learned here. 1) don't let women ref olympic games 2) who cares - it's womens soccer
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by Evil One on August 7, 2012 at 10:27 am
You're just pissed we don't allow blacks in our country, get over it Mo
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by cantgetthestinkout on August 7, 2012 at 10:29 am
They have as many Gold Medals as Grenada*. *Grenada has a population of 100,000. Which makes it roughly 1/10 the size of Rhode Island.
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by natkingcole on August 7, 2012 at 10:40 am
as pathetic as this blog is, the even worse part is that you know more about women's soccer than you do about the NBA and NFL. fuck you mo
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by leoparilo on August 7, 2012 at 10:41 am
Let us not forget who burned your White House to the ground!
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by EZBreezey2222 on August 7, 2012 at 10:50 am
@natkingcole - at the risk of sounding like a chick-fil-a protesting homo they are complaining because the US team got a penalty kick on a hand ball to tie the game up with like 5 minutes left. i watched the whole game last night (now more of a certainty than a risk) and the US easily could have been awarded 3 penalty kicks earlier in the game. Sour grapes for America's Visor....
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by SoftAsSatinDavidPatten on August 7, 2012 at 10:58 am
We didnt bitch when they beat us in Mens Hockey for the gold?
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by Numero Two on August 7, 2012 at 11:00 am
Based on Olympic performance I'm more apt to say Mexico is our pants than Canada is our hat.
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by natkingcole on August 7, 2012 at 11:04 am
@EZbreezey saw the highlights, was clearly a handball. on another note how pathetic is women's soccer? like 4 of the goals were headers in which there was no defense and the ball looped over the goalies heads since they cant jump. another goal was directly off a corner at the near post since canada was too retarded to put a defender there, and another was a header when USAs dumbass bitch defender came off the back post on a corner
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by natkingcole on August 7, 2012 at 11:06 am
was laughing hard at the commentators calling this an instant classic where every goal but one was due to the incredible shittyness of women athletes
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by Numero Two on August 7, 2012 at 11:10 am
natkingcole, same, though Rapinoe's 2nd goal was unreal.
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by ningenito on August 7, 2012 at 1:12 pm
The Candian players and coach did nothing but bitch about the refs the whole Olympics. I also watched the game for some reason and that was absolutely a hand ball. Not to mention the Americans outplayed them for the last 20 mins or so. They were faster and kept their cool while the Canadians were chasing the refs all over the field waving their arms. If the game ended at about the 70 min mark Canada deserved to win. Unfortunately there was a lot more time than that.
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by evildead on August 7, 2012 at 1:44 pm
I love how all you guys are like DRRRRR AMAZING GAME, BEST GAME EVER. If what happened to the Canadians happened to you sorry ass Amish fucks you'd be screaming to high hell threatening to nuke Europe. Crooked Ref's gave you guys this games, go fuck yourselves.
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by dudebro on August 7, 2012 at 2:35 pm
I don't understand why theyre complaining? What did the ref have to do with the goals?
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by valbroski on August 7, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Incredible game, the definition of what sports is supposed to be
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by Pseudonym on August 7, 2012 at 4:47 pm
The Canadians were huge underdogs against the best women's team on the planet yet the Americans only squeaked out a win in extra time. It could have easily gone the other way. Christine Sinclair was a one-woman wrecking crew. I think a sigh of relief would be more appropriate than gloating. I have also read this blog enough to know the amount of whining about officiating on Barstool has no bounds. It was an incredible game and for those who know anything about soccer you would know how weak the officiating was but it doesn't matter because that's the way the ball bounces (excuse the pun).
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by aslt44 on August 8, 2012 at 11:41 am
Drop the poutine for a cheeseburger? I have to say I have never been on this site before, but I have to ask who is this monkey that writes that vomit above? Who ever it is, needs to get educated on how to smack talk. Oh wait it must be a childish American who must always resort to.....oh never mind just re-read what this person wrote. Ha ha get a life loser GO JAPAN.
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by heights808 on August 9, 2012 at 5:31 am
Canada wins at nothing? In the last winter olympic standings they won the most. America is the only country in the world that goes by total medal rank and not golds. Way to value a bronze the same as a gold. Enjoy losing to China. Check out your education rankings.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading enough said. This is part of the reason you are looked down upon by the rest of the world.
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