Alex Morgan Wins Olympic Bronze With the USA

Plant-based striker Alex Morgan has won an Olympic bronze medal with the United States, after a 4-3 win over Australia at Kashima Stadium today (Thursday, August 5). Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd scored two each, with Australia's goals coming from Sam Kerr, Caitlin Foord and Emily Gielnik, according to the official tournament record.

It's a medal the USA had to fight for after a 1-0 semi-final defeat to Canada ended their hopes of gold. Morgan, playing at her third Olympics, scored in the 6-1 group win over New Zealand and converted her penalty in the quarter-final shootout win over the Netherlands.

The 32-year-old is one of the most decorated players in the game, a two-time World Cup winner. Just making this squad was an achievement after she gave birth to her daughter last year.

Morgan switched to a plant-based diet around November 2017 for the animals, shortly after a PETA campaign with her rescue dog Blue. She has also noticed what it does for her body, as she explained:

I'm knocking on wood right now, but I haven't had a serious injury [since her last, which was before going vegan] and I credit that to my diet. I feel better all around, I feel like I have great energy, I feel like I'm sleeping really well, I feel like I'm just more clear-minded and not as reliant on caffeine as before.

A typical day starts with oatmeal, nut butter and berries, and might end with a chickpea Thai curry or a bean burrito.

We first reported in 2018 that Morgan had changed her diet, the same month she took the Golden Boot at the CONCACAF Championship, and a year later she won the World Cup and the Silver Boot. Back at the 2016 Games, Kendrick Farris was the only male US weightlifter in Rio.

No meat, no problem.