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A Tiny Gap Reveals a Yawning One for the U.S. Women’s Team

Related Topics: Lina Hurtig, Vlatko Andonovski

The idea that the United States was eliminated from the Women’s World Cup by a millimeter is an illusion. Denying that will only guarantee more failures.

The United States team gathered around one another in a circle with their arms around each other.
The United States team gathered around one another in a circle with their arms around each other.

Even in the highest-resolution image, examined up close, there was not so much as a discernible sliver of daylight. The margin by which the United States was eliminated from the Women’s World Cup was so microscopic that it cannot be expressed in a unit of measurement the country fully recognizes.