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Abby Wambach ‘planning on playing’ in Rio, ‘still need time to decide’

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.