Hello, Meg here, and you're listening to Full Time with Meg Linaan, a show all about women's soccer on the athletic podcast network.

It is Friday.

And Canada has just won gold via a wild penalty kick shootout with Sweden.

Steph Young and I are here to discuss the gold medal game,

some thoughts on the U.S. Women's National Team and what comes next,

plus early reflections on the tournament as a whole.

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All right, we have gold medalists.

Steph is already smiling, which is not captured in podcast form.

She is now displaying the batch of Canada soccer.

So we have one very happy podcaster.

We have one who was a neutral slash rooting for Canada. A lot of very stressed text messages happened this morning in various group

chats. So Steph, I will just honestly seed the floor to you since I feel like this is your

time to shine. I'm just looking at the notes I was taking on this game in case I had to do any kind of

write-up for it. And they just get worse and worse and worse until extra time. It's like

barely. It's mostly caps. It's just like, and then I have written in all caps penalties.

And then obviously like written in all caps, penalties. And then obviously, like, post, scores, saved, scored, bar, saved.

Sayer goes high.

It was a real, it was a real emotional roller coaster.

I mean, Sweden looked very strong first half.

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