LeBron James and Billie Jean King praised he U.S. women’s national soccer team after winning the gold medal match over Brazil 1-0.
After 12 years, the U.S. women’s national team is back on top at the Olympics.
The USWNT has historically dominated the Games — the U.S. has five gold medals since women’s association football became an event at Atlanta 1996, all other countries have combined for three — but recently had been on a relative dry streak with regard to Olympic success.
