A record crowd of 80,203 attended the final of the London 2012 Olympics women’s football.

The USA beat Japan 2-1 at Wembley, claiming their fourth Olympic gold in women’s football.

Midfielder Carli Lloyd scored both goals for the US – a header after eight minutes and a powerful strike after the break.

Yuki Ogimi scored for Japan.

Speaking about the women’s Olympic football tournament BBC summariser Lucy Ward said ”There has been a lot of stand-out performances and goals. The women’s game is constantly improving and the standard gets better at every major tournament.”

USA win gold

Canada beat France 1-0 to take the bronze medal match.

Canada take the bronze

The players were transported south to arrive at Wembley in time to watch the final.
They were presented with their medals on the pitch along with gold and silver medallists the US and Japan.

Presenting the medals

The Wembley crowd cheered and applauded both teams throughout the match in equal measure. However, Switzerland’s FIFA president Sepp Blatter was booed by the crowd before the medal ceremony.

   Raising the flag

All photos by Juliamaud

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History is being made in Women's football at the london 2012 Olympics

Although men's football has been included in every Olympic Games except 1896 and 1932 women's football was not included in the Olympics until the 1996 Atlanta Games.

The USA has made it to the final in all the preveious four Olympic Games, winning the gold medal three times.

Yet again the USA have made it to the final. For London 2012 the USA are facing Japan. This match comes a year after Japan unexpectedly won the World Cup by dramatically beating the United States on penalties.

Womens football has come a long way and gained many supporters. More than 70,000 watched Britain's group match with Brazil at Wembley; at the time a record crowd for a woman's football match anywhere in Britain.Thursday's final is expected to break that and set a new Olympic attendance record playing to a 83,000-capacity crowd.

Women's results from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_Summer_Olympics#Women.27s_tournament

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd place	Score	4th place
1996 Details	Atlanta	United States	2 – 1	China	Norway	2 – 0	Brazil
2000 Details	Sydney	Norway	3 – 2 asdet	United States	Germany	2 – 0	Brazil
2004 Details	Athens	United States	2 – 1 aet	Brazil	Germany	1 – 0	Sweden
2008 Details	Beijing	United States	1 – 0 aet	Brazil	Germany	2 – 0	Japan

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