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...game also proved that women's soccer, and women's team sports, have reached a new level of skill and popularity. "It was awesome," said forward Kristine Lilly, "really awesome," a word that kept bouncing among the U.S. players. "The crowd was absolutely unbelievable," added superstar Mia Hamm. "It was awesome playing in front...
...squad, led by Hamm and a host of experienced players, ranks as the favorite among the 16 competing nations. Yet defending champion Norway, as well as China or Brazil, could also win the trophy. The U.S. women won the first Cup in China in 1991. Four years later, Norway won the crown in Sweden. But at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the U.S. beat China 2-1 to win the gold--although few viewers got to see that achievement, since NBC gave the game short shrift. ("NBC thinks the world is made up of divers," fumed Hank Steinbrecher, U.S. Soccer...
...Hamm needed only 17 min. to put her mark on Saturday's game. She buried a vicious left-footed shot in the roof of the Danish net after first flicking the ball past a defender with her right. "I was saying to myself, 'You've got to be kidding. I don't score goals like that.'" Apparently, she does...
...those teammates is the 27-year-old Hamm, the reigning queen of footie, who is a household name--if your household has a girl who plays soccer. Hamm shoots Nike ads with Michael Jordan and earns more than $1 million a year in endorsements. She's one of the most recognized athletes in the U.S. One look at Hamm in action will tell you that she shares His Airness's furnace-like competitive fire and focus. But she parts company with him when it comes to her approach to fame. Jordan wears his celebrity comfortably, effortlessly, like a scarf thrown...
BILLIE JEAN KING There were certainly better female athletes. In tennis alone, Martina Navratilova was her clear superior, and even at her peak she had a pretty hard time with Chris Evert and Margaret Court. Sheryl Swoopes is more dazzling, and Mia Hamm combines finesse and power in what may be a palimpsest for the New Athletic Woman. But before any of them, there was Billie Jean Moffitt King, 20 times a champion at Wimbledon, who changed the way we look at female athletes--and, more important, changed the way they look at one another. "She was a crusader fighting...