Hey, it's Pablo. It's Labor Day. You're taking it easy, I hope. Because look, we've all experienced a summer of stops and starts when it comes to the pandemic. And obviously it has been no different in the world of sports. So today's show, which we ran ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games, is the

truly incredible story of a scientist who helped develop the coronavirus vaccine, the Pfizer

vaccine, which recently became the first of the vaccines to receive FDA approval, and her

Olympian daughter. It's Monday, September 6th. This is ESPN Daily.

More steps are now being taken to keep athletes and officials safe at the Olympics in Tokyo,

Japan. The International Olympic Committee, the IOC, says that Pfizer plans to donate vaccines

to Olympians and to Olympic officials.

They'll be vaccinated before they get into Tokyo.

You can feel it now, this lockdown planet opening back up with the coronavirus vaccine as the key.

And now, as the sports world turns to its biggest stage, the Olympic Games, just one month

away, we tell the story of the scientist responsible for the optimism you may be feeling.

And her daughter, an Olympian, who, like her mom, refused to give up.

Julie, it is a wild time to be talking to you right now.

You're in the middle of covering Euro 2020, an event that had been delayed due to COVID.

The Olympics are also right on the horizon, also thrown into flux by the coronavirus pandemic.

But you have this documentary feature that you've been preparing for E60 that feels like it sits at the center of this entire messy Venn diagram.

It is about sports.

It is about science.

It is about the pandemic and the Olympics and one particular family.

This, first of all, Pablo, is a gift of a story. It's a reporter's dream.

Julie Fowdy is an Olympic and World Cup champion with the U.S. women's national team. And now

she's a soccer commentator and reporter for ESPN. You have a mom who is a scientist who has toiled for decades on something that she believes deeply in

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