How well did the NWSL and WNBA prepare its players for the Olympics?

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, Claire takes the solo mic to break down a beautiful new rivalry between the Orlando Pride and the Kansas City Current, while taking stock of where every NWSL team has landed going into the leagues regular season Olympic break. Then, she does the same with the WNBA, looking at small shifts that could impact the standings after Paris. She takes stock of individual performances in the context of the two WNBA all-star teams, and takes the temperature for just how prepared both the NWSL and WNBA have gotten their athletes for the Olympics.

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0:00.0	You look at a player like Marta, she's been there for all of it.
0:03.0	She cares.
0:04.0	Orlando wants to be respected as the best team in the league
0:07.5	and not sort of a flash in the pan best team in the league this year type thing.
0:11.5	They want to be treated like a team that has turned things around.
0:14.6	Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub. I am your Claire Watkins it is Monday July 8th and we are
0:25.4	at an inflection point the NWSL regular season has finished until after the
0:32.0	Olympics the WMBA is only one week away from doing that themselves
0:36.6	very excited to dig into where each league is as eyes turned to Paris.
0:41.5	All right so starting this week off with NWSL
0:46.6	chatter, what a weekend for the NWSL.
0:49.2	It was the final weekend before the league takes some time off of the regular season for the Olympics.
0:54.4	There will be the NWSL and Liga Emmekies Femine Summer Cup during that time,
0:59.0	but the NWSL regular season is not returning until the third week of August. So we're taking OSC
1:04.2	is not returning until the third week of August. So we're taking kind of a big picture look at what the landscape is here going into this break. It's significant. I think coaches talk about this all the times GMs do
1:14.2	players do about how these major tournament years are very segmented in the end of
1:18.6	USL to the fact that it is a summer league we're going to see new signings
1:22.1	coming into the league after the Olympics.
1:24.0	There's going to be kind of a changed landscape.
1:26.0	But let's talk about this snapshot that we're in right now because it was a pretty exciting weekend.
1:30.0	I do think we just kind of have to start with the blockbuster match of the week, which was Orlando in Kansas City, the battle of the unbeatens. They were tied at the top of the table. They were both fostering these
1:43.6	historic unbeaten streaks for the regular season. Orlando had been coming off of
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