It's well documented why Marta and Brazil have a more difficult time winning Gold than USA. Same with Lotta and Sweden.
Lotta and Sweden get no support from their Federation? I have never heard it said. They also have a fully functioning league that is one of the top leagues in the world. In fact people are saying they need to see our top players play there to prove themselves.
I was referring to Sweden not being funded much as USWNT(Germany and us are funded the most). Not that there not funded.
The Gold Medal Match will be repeated on the NBC Sports Network - Sunday, August 19 - 7:30 pm ET - 9:30 pm ET. Tuesday, August 21 - 9:00 pm ET - 11:00 pm ET.
Update - We have two schedule changes - (1) NBCSN is replaying the semifinal match instead of the gold medal match tonight - same time slot of 7:30 pm ET-9:30 pm ET. (2) NBCSN has decided to stop showing these "Return To London" replays a few days early so the gold medal match will not be shown Tuesday - 9:00 pm ET-11:00 pm ET. (The last showing is track cycling/bmx - Monday morning - 2:00 am ET-3:00 am ET. Orginial schedule had them going to Wednesday night with the mens and womens gold medal basketball games being shown back to back - 7:00 pm ET-11:00 pm ET.)
Holy crap did NBC ruin this replay with commercials. They went to the first commercial at 4:11 in the game, and came back at 17:39. The break was maybe a minute and a half, but they skipped ahead. They did the same thing in each break.