The Soccer Chronicles: The Gold Standard

 

Michael Regan/Getty ImagesHeather O’Reilly after the United States women’s soccer team defeated Japan to win the gold medal at the Olympics in London.

Heather O’Reilly, a midfielder on the United States women’s soccer team and a two-time gold medalist, will be writing regularly for the 2012 London Olympics blog. This is her sixth post.
We did it. We did what we went to London to do. We won the gold. Although it is incredibly hard to have that kind of standard, a “gold or bust” mentality, those are just the cards we have been dealt from the legends who came before us. This team has always been about being trying to be the best.
And to be honest, we wouldn’t have it any other way. That mentality carried us in London. Anyone who watched our games over the last month knew that this team had a special will to win. When our backs were against the wall, we fought a little harder, we dug a little deeper, and we played a little more together