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But of the seven athletes featured on the SI cover, none of them represent the country's most dominating -- yet largely anonymous -- team over the past three decades, one whose eye-popping statistic was buried in a one liner under its medals picks: The U.S. women's basketball team has a 41-game Olympic winning streak.
That's right, U.S. women are undefeated in basketball since winning the bronze medal game of 1992 -- two years before reserve center Breanna Stewart was even born.
Team USA has, in fact, won every gold medal bar one since President Jimmy Carter boycotted the 1980 Moscow Games, compiling a crushing 56-1 record in the interim. Its margin of victory at London 2012 stood at over 34 points per game.
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