Canadian Olympic Soccer Team has great tournament and pick up a medal

So Canadian was broken on Monday against the US in a heart-breaking loss with 30 seconds in the extra time and then the talked started about the ref and why she made the calls she did i.e the 6 sec call and the hand ball off Canadian that went off Canadian Marie-Eve Nault that went off her arm and Alex Morgan put home the free kick. Then coming out out of the match fifa changed the tone of the conversation from the ref to will Canadian players Christine Sinclair or Melissa Tancredi suspended for the bronze as fifa announced they were looking at comments by the Canadian ladies after the US game and thankfully it was only a smokescreen as FiFA announced they did have enough info to make a decision before today's game.

The Canadian women were on their heels all game with France attacking and attacking and attacking and just could not put one away and the Canadians did not look like they had any legs left but things turned for the Canadians when Sinclair was fouled at the beginning of added time and got a free kick that did not work. Then a minute later Diana Mathesonwas in front of the French goal and put it away to give Canada a 1-0 win in the last minute of added time and it became the first traditional team medal by a Canadian team in the Summer Olympic since 1936.

It was a great way for Canadian ladies a tournament where they lost to the top two teams in the world when they opened the tournament against Japan and lost 2-1 on two late first half goals and fought back to make it close in the second half with a goal from Melissa Tancredi who turned out to the surprise of the tournament with 4 goals and gave Sinclair the support she needed. Then Canada beat South Africa 3-0 and tied Sweden 2-2 to head into the knock out round and beat Great Britain in the quarter-final in an almost empty Coventry stadium.

This is a great way for the 29-year-old Christine Sinclair to put herself in a class by herself in women's soccer with her 143 international goals and will be most likely the Canadian flag bearer for Sunday's closing ceremonies in London.

It is a kick-start for the 2015 world cup that Canada will host

Tom Mehegan