A Tough Road To Gold For The U.S. Women's Soccer Team
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🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Coming into the Tokyo Olympics, the U.S. Women's Soccer Team was the clear favorite to bring home a gold medal, which would make them the first team to ever a World Cup title and an Olympic title back-to-back. But after dropping their first game to Sweden 3-0, and battling Australia to a tough 0-0 draw, some questions have started to emerge about the squad and head coach Vlatko Andonovski, who is leading the team in a major tournament for the first time. The Athletic's Meg Linehan and Steph Yang join us to break down what went wrong for the U.S. in that opening loss, the journeys that Alex Morgan and Carli Lloyd went on to make it to the tournament, and what now stands between the team and a gold medal.
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| 0:46.0 | Coming into the Olympics, the heavy favourites to win the gold and women's soccer was the good old USA. |
| 0:59.0 | But in their opening game of the tournament, they saw their 44 game winning streak snapped. |
| 1:05.0 | So the World Champions, the United States are thrashed in their opening game of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, three-nil vixers in the Sweden. |
| 1:16.0 | If they're going to become the first team in history to win the World Cup and then the Olympic gold, the USA must do it the hard way. |
| 1:25.0 | Today, the Athletics Meg Lennahan and Step Young, and what we've seen from the US team at the Olympics so far, |
| 1:31.0 | what star players like Alex Morgan and Carly Lloyd have gone through just to make it to the tournament, |
| 1:37.0 | and the tough road that now lies between them and another Olympic title. |
| 1:41.0 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. |
| 1:44.0 | It's Thursday, July 29th, and this is Belid. |
| 1:48.0 | Step and Meg, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 1:58.0 | As many people will remember, the US women hoisted the World Cup once again in 2019. |
| 2:04.0 | The United States of America are crowned champions of the world, and for the very first time they've done it on European soil. |
| 2:13.0 | And I know both of you cover this team very closely, so since that win, what kind of turnover have we seen within the squad? |
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