Olympic Women's Soccer Semi-Finals

 

The Olympics have been very exciting this year. Original records being broken and world records being remade; it really has been a sight to see. As an American, I've obviously been rooting for America, GO USA and boy have the United States been showing their stuff. As of the current medal count, the USA has the most medals with 43 in total with China in second with 42 total medals. The USA also leads in gold medals with 21 and China with 20. I do get emotional when I watch the Olympics. I don't go all out crying, but I do get teary eyed. It's been good so far for the United States, with Missy Franklin, Ryan Lochte, The Fab 5, Gabby Douglas, and many others winning gold medals, especially Michael Phelps who was now broken the record for most Olympic medals won. He started out a little slow in the beginning of the competition, but as the races progressed, he showed that he is indeed the best in the world. 



But there is still a ways to go in the Olympics. Games and races are still being fought for and that brings us to the Women's Olympics Soccer semi-finals stage. The quarter-finals were played today: USA vs. New Zealand, Canada vs. Great Britain, Japan vs. Brazil, and France vs. Sweden. I was able to watch the second half of the US vs. New Zealand game, and I watched a bit of the Japan vs. Brazil game. The quarter-finals ended with USA winning 2-0, France coming back 2-1, Canada sending the host country off 2-0, and Japan stopping the Brazilians 2-0. So the semi-finals line up is USA vs. Canada and France vs. Japan.



I have to say that Japan is a very good side. I know they won the Women's World Cup, but I've never really watched Japan play until today. I was able to see their style and I gotta say that they have really good ball control and passing. They are also pretty good at defending. They have proven that even if your team is relatively small in size, that does not mean you can't play good soccer. I am still rooting for team USA as they are the favorites to retain their title from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and win the gold. This can get pretty interesting because for all we know the final can end up as a USA vs. Japan again and the Japanese are good contenders for the gold. We'll just have to wait and see. 

Happy Olympics everyone. Hope everyone is enjoying the games as much as I am. Love watching the Olympics! and.....GO TEAM USA!