US women’s water polo team fail to win Olympic medal for first time in history

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In a matter of days, the US women's water polo team went from the pursuit of a historic gold medal to going home empty-handed. It was quite a fall.

The US blew another lead on Saturday and lost 11-10 to the Netherlands on Sabrina van der Sloot's last-second goal in the bronze-medal game at the Paris Olympics. The US had been the only program to medal in each women's water polo tournament at the Olympics since it started in 2000.

We've talked about just trying to learn from our mistakes and getting better," US captain Maggie Steffens said. And I feel today we struggled to continually learn from our mistakes."