No team has ever followed winning the Women's World Cup by claiming Olympic gold the following year, and, based on a technicality, that trend is guaranteed to continue in 2020.
That's not because the 2019 Women's World Cup champion U.S. women's national team will necessarily falter on the Olympic stage, but it's because the Olympics have been postponed. The IOC and Japanese government announced Tuesday that the 2020 Tokyo Games will be pushed to 2021 due to the global coronavirus pandemic, with the exact timing yet to be determined. According to the IOC's statement, the Games "must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021." There are myriad knock-on effects from…
