The US does not have a huge aerial presence on set pieces on crosses.

This is leading them to do less crosses in the air, which I think is very good.

It makes them much more dynamic and much more dangerous.

But if you need those advantages it's on set pieces or if you're

chasing a goal or something like that her ran is the only player on the team with a

real proven trap record of scoring with her head. Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub.

I am your host Claire Watkins.

It is Monday, July 29th and wow do we have a lot to discuss.

The Olympics are here.

We're going to take the A-block as we usually do to do a deep dive on the US

was national soccer team who are doing very, very well in their group stage

campaign thus far. And then we're going to take a look around to do a little bit of a wrap around look at a bunch of different sports some of the big storylines in the first week who's doing well where the drama is and a little bit of previews going into the next couple days as well.

So that's a lot of a lot to talk about.

Let's jump in.

All right, so we have finally made it.

The Olympics are here.

The torch has been lit the opening ceremony took place on Friday

Saline de yon sang I shed a tear it was really lovely and then it's been non-stop

Olympic sports since then we're going to get into some of the other kind of unique Olympic

sports a little bit later in the show but obviously I think the main headline

for us as the show has been following the team for a while and also just this feels like the big redemption arc perhaps is the United States women's national soccer team.

They got started last Thursday against Zambia and then they played a big big game against Germany on Sunday.

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