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The countdown is on to the 2024 Paris Olympics and training has officially begun for the U.S. women’s national team, which gathered this week in New Jersey to start camp. With nine first-time Olympians on the squad and a fresh face leading them from the sidelines, there will be plenty of new on and off the pitch for Team USA — but the women’s team is still setting the bar as high as ever for success. Success, specifically, comes wrapped in gold.
“This is a team that strives for excellence,” USWNT captain Lindsey Horan said Monday when speaking to the media in New York City. “We always want to be at the top of the podium at the end of the day. After the World Cup, we really regrouped and we’ve been working extremely hard over this past year and especially these last few months. With Emma [Hayes] coming in and everything that she’s done and contributed, it’s a very exciting time. You look at the young players coming in, the leaders on this team, the big…
