Olympic Gold for the USWNT: Emma Hayes triumphant in first tournament after Alyssa Naeher heroics in final
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Your 2024 Paris Olympic champions are the U.S. women's national team.
On the final Olympic reaction podcast, Tamerra Griffin and Steph Yang dissect how Emma Hayes' players ground out a nervy and choppy 1-0 win in the final over Brazil.
Was this USA team redeeming the 2023 World Cup failure or is that an unfair lens to view the triumph through? Just how huge was goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher at the tournament? Are the USWNT ahead of schedule in terms of their development under Hayes?
From the Parc des Princes stadium in France, Meg Linehan called in to give an update on the USA players' emotions at the final whistle and set the scene from the podium, including tears of joy in the press conference from captain Lindsey Horan.
Finally, Tamerra and Steph close out their 2024 Paris Olympic podcast coverage by handing out their own awards for the best tournament moments and then reflect on how these Games will be remembered.
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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Steph Yang
GUESTS: Meg Linehan
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | They did it. |
| 0:14.7 | The U.S. Women's National Team are Olympic gold medal champions. |
| 0:19.4 | And I can guarantee none of us thought it was going to look this way. |
| 0:22.5 | For those of us, we even thought it was possible. |
| 0:24.3 | But that's why Steph and I are here to help you break it all down on full time, |
| 0:28.7 | our last Olympics episode. |
| 0:31.3 | Steph, oh my God. |
| 0:34.5 | First thoughts about that game. |
| 0:36.2 | One-nill, Mel Swanson, 57th minute goal. Tired, yeah. I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired, yeah. |
| 0:41.0 | Real. |
| 0:42.0 | Real. |
| 0:43.2 | I am tired from watching that game. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm more tired. |
| 0:46.6 | We had to get up on the East Coast anyway early for the bronze medal match between Germany and Spain. |
| 0:52.2 | Early for, you know, kind of the day that it was, um, 9 a.m. |
| 0:56.9 | And I was less tired after watching that game than I was this one, which kicked off at 11 Eastern |
| 1:03.4 | time. It was grind ball. They, that was a real, like, mentality game result. So I don't know how you feel, but it's also like, it's almost the end of the Olympics. |
| 1:17.6 | Like, okay, we're almost there to the end. |
| 1:20.6 | We're getting there. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm ready for the nap. |
| 1:23.6 | We've been on such a journey together. |
| 1:25.6 | There's like the journey of the broader Olympics, which felt even more packed with drama than I can ever remember. |
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