Winning the gold medal at last summer’s Tokyo Olympics was a landmark moment for the Canadian women’s soccer team. But coach Bev Priestman doesn’t want it to be a one-off. Rather, she envisions it as the start of something truly special where Canada can regularly compete with the elite nations in the world. “I think now there’s a line in the sand where yes, that Olympic medal happened, but actually I want to move beyond the medal. We have to set that new vision and tweak some things that will help us longer term as a team,” Priestman said. With three consecutive podium finishes, Canada has shown that it can make noise at the Olympics. But success at the FIFA World Cup has been much harder to come by for the Canadians, who have bowed out at the group stage four times and only once advanced to the semifinals in their seven appearances. Next year’s World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, presents Canada with another chance to prove itself on the sport’s biggest stage. To ...