Few athletes have become more of a lighting rod for controversy than the record-setting goalkeeper for the U.S. women's soccer team. Now one game into the Summer Olympics, she's drawing unwanted attention over comments she made about the Zika virus that has plagued Brazil. Wednesday, in the U.S. team's opening game of the Rio Olympics, Solo was the target of boos, a vulgar chant used by fans of the local men's soccer team, and repeated jeers of "Zika! Last month Solo posted a photo on Twitter of herself wearing mosquito netting and holding a bottle of insect repellent. In last summer's Women's World Cup in Canada, Solo was pressured by some reporters for details of her domestic-violence case in Washington state.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 04, 2016 02:34 UTC