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Thoughts on the U.S. Olympic openers

By Jen Chang

Thursday, August 7, 2008

With the opening group games for both the U.S. men's and women's Olympic soccer teams completed, here are my initial thoughts on both: 1. Ugly, but a win's a win. It wasn't pretty, but at least the U.S. men escaped with three points against Japan in a game it absolutely had to win to stand a decent chance of emerging out of group stage. And when I say escaped, I do mean just that. Japan had several golden opportunities to score, and only some comedic "finishing" of the highest ineptitude -- inc ...

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