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Hope Solo of U.S. Soccer Team Suspended for Remarks. She Cries Double Standard.

[DIGEST: Sports Illustrated, CBC Sports]

The United States Soccer Federation has suspended U.S. women’s national team goalkeeper Hope Solo for six months and terminated her contract for comments she made about Sweden’s national team during Rio’s Olympics. Solo made headlines earlier this month after she called the Swedes “a bunch of cowards” for focusing on defense in a match against the three-time defending champion U.S. team after the Swedes beat the U.S. 4-3 on penalties following a 1-1 draw in the quarter-finals of the 2016 Olympic tournament.

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