The U.S. women started strongly but it was tied, 14-14, at the break after Caroline Moquin-Joubert caught quarterback Sara Parker\u2019s pass at the end of the first half. Parker set up Frederique Morneau at the start of the second half as Canada took control.<\/p>\n
The U.S. had a fourth down, yards from the line, with three seconds left, but could not make the final play count. It was Canada\u2019s third title and first since beating the U.S. in the 2014 final.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel so happy, I can\u2019t believe it,\u201d Parker said after hugging her mother. \u201dLiterally the best day ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
The International Federation of American Football ran the championship tournament, which doubled up as a qualifier, in the German city of D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n
The top two men\u2019s and top two women\u2019s teams earned a spot at the 2028 Games, along with the U.S. men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams because they already qualified as hosts.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s two other finalists — the Italian men and Canadian women — earned an Olympic spot by reaching the final against the U.S. teams, meaning that the bronze-medal games decided who joined them.<\/p>\n
Members of Mexico’s women’s team cried with joy after a 20-19 win over Great Britain — which rallied from 20-6 down — for the women\u2019s bronze and an Olympic spot.<\/p>\n
But Mexico\u2019s men lost, 34-26, in overtime to Canada, which claimed an Olympic spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. women started strongly but it was tied, 14-14, at the break after Caroline Moquin-Joubert caught quarterback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1111,17,116,11134],"class_list":["post-170351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-associated-press","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-no-minute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}