A BROKEN LEG? How Lucy Bronze WON the Euros With a "Secret" Injury

A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

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Soccer, Basketball, Sports

4.4 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Soccer legend Lucy Bronze joins Megan and Sue to talk about how she dominated Euro 2025 with a not-so-secret-secret broken leg, what she learned from her college teammates at UNC, and what her autism diagnosis has meant to her. Plus, Sue gives a behind-the-scenes look at how her tryst with the Storm’s mascot Doppler came to be, and they discuss the spate of bonkers scoring in the WNBA, including record-setting performances by A’ja Wilson, Dominique Malonga, and Alyssa Thomas. Our Workout of the Week tackles how to add a little exercise to your everyday activities, and we share some responses to our anti-bicker of the week about brushing your teeth before drinking coffee. And don’t forget, we’re bringing A Touch More to Seattle on August 16th with very special guests Gabby Williams and Lauren Jackson! Get your tickets here. A Touch More: The Podcast is produced in partnership with VOX MEDIA and TOGETHXR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to a touch more. So excited to be here. We have a lot to review
0:08.4	this past week. There was a little bit of a coming out party, a different kind of coming
0:12.9	out party, but I'm sure you guys saw that Doppler and I have been officially exposed.
0:20.8	We're in a thruple with Doppler. Great. And Megan showed up. and I have been officially exposed.
0:22.6	We're in a thruple with Doppler.
0:23.7	Great.
0:26.2	And Megan showed everybody her acting skills.
0:27.6	It was pretty impressive.
0:30.1	I mean, where do we begin?
0:33.8	I feel like everybody's been so curious about how this came to be.
0:35.9	And very quick story.
0:40.3	I was at a storm game, actually, Sons, Megan, which is very rare,
0:46.5	and was sitting with a friend of ours, Leslie. And a couple of fans had done the cold play thing. And so it came on the jumbo, trying everybody laughed. And it was in this moment where
0:50.4	Leslie kind of looked at me and she was like, you should do that with Doppler. And I was like,
0:54.0	I should do that with Doppler. And in that moment, obviously, I've got a couple of connections
0:59.5	with the storm. I hit up the president. I was hitting up all kinds of people. And I was like,
1:02.9	this needs to happen. And then just kind of put it together. And to be honest, Megan, you were a little
1:08.3	bit of a late ad, but was able to creatively fit you in,
1:12.7	which made it obviously even better.
1:15.8	I got home on that Friday night.
1:18.8	I had gone to the rain game.
1:21.0	You had gone to the storm game.
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