A new kind of American role model

I'm still not convinced they pass the Grantland Rice test of sporting honor, but hail to their achievement and their alternative to male chauvinist nationalism.

...By their existence and their conduct, they offer an alternative to the nationalism of men who claim a monopoly on the meaning of country and flag. “I think that I’m particularly and uniquely and very deeply American,” Rapinoe said before the final. “If we want to talk about the ideals that we stand for, all the songs and the anthem and sort of what we were founded on, I think I’m extremely American.” And she’s right: she is.

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