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The two teams had already battled in sweltering heat at Yokohama Stadium for 120 minutes, each scoring once. Now, a gold medal would be determined by penalty kicks.
And though the shootout took an agonizing six rounds to decide, the soccer deities Priestman had invoked ultimately looked favourably on the Canadians, who won on a strike from 20-year-old Vancouver native Julia Grosso, who was still in elementary school when Glass 香蕉视频直播� the former president of Peace Arch Soccer 香蕉视频直播� made her Olympic debut with the Canadian squad at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Hours after the gold-medal game ended, Glass and Grosso had a moment to reflect on what had just happened.
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