US Player Punched During Olympic Women's Soccer Match

[VKhaun]

http://www.nesn.com/2012/07/abby-wam...win-video.html

All of their stuff about unity and sportsmanship is right out the window if Columbia plays another game IMO.

[Alex Mars]

Doesn't that happen in all soccer games? my wife used to play and said it was brutal.

[Graveworm]

No, it doesn't happen in all soccer games. Bad fouls aren't uncommon but a straight punch is. Also, VKhaun, the player will get banned, not the team.

[VKhaun]

If this was a match in their home country I could see disciplining a player, but it isn't. They know the people they brought, or at least they should, and they chose to bring this person who's going to take swings at people on global TV to sway the outcome of a sporting event.

Keep that shit where it belongs.
In ice hockey...

[Valec]

Also, VKhaun, the player will get banned, not the team.

3char.

[Graveworm]

If this was a match in their home country I could see disciplining a player, but it isn't. They know the people they brought, or at least they should, and they chose to bring this person who's going to take swings at people on global TV to sway the outcome of a sporting event.

Keep that shit where it belongs.
In ice hockey...

There are standards in place for dealing with this kind of thing in a soccer match. Those standards will be followed. Colombia will be allowed to play their next match. There isn't really much more too it than that.