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Soccer: US women's soccer players could boycott Olympics over pay dispute

"It would still be on the table," Sauerbrunn told ESPNW's Julie Foudy when asked about an Olympics boycott. "We are reserving every right to do so and we're leaving every avenue open. If nothing has changed and we don't feel any progress has been made, then it's a conversation that we're gonna have."

Sauerbrunn laid out the team's complaint, which goes beyond the salary imbalance with the far-less-successful U.S. men's team to encompass slights such as having to play some games on artificial turf.

"The outcome, I hope, is equal pay for equal play," Sauerbrunn said. "I think, compensation-wise and respect-wise, that's what I'm really hoping comes out of this complaint.