Tokyo Olympics: And That's a Wrap

Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Steph Yang and Meg are here with the final edition of our Olympics coverage on Full Time, with a very happy Steph celebrating Canada’s victory over Sweden via penalty kicks to win Gold. We’ve got some thoughts on the match, a little bit of reflection about what comes next for the USWNT, and say goodbye to Tokyo 2020 (and get just a bit hyped for the 2023 World Cup already). For all our Olympic women’s soccer coverage at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/tag/tokyo-2020-womens-soccer/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.5	Hello. 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.
0:48.6	It is Friday.
0:55.0	And Canada has just won gold via a wild penalty kick shootout with Sweden.
0:58.0	Steph Young and I are here to discuss the gold medal game,
1:00.6	some thoughts on the U.S. Women's National Team and what comes next,
1:03.7	plus early reflections on the tournament as a whole.
1:08.1	Before we get into it, subscribe to The Athletic for all of our women's soccer coverage and beyond. There's always a deal for you at theathletic.com
1:10.9	slash full time.
1:26.1	All right.
1:26.8	We have gold medalists.
1:29.7	Steph is already smiling, which is not captured in podcast form.
1:34.7	She is now displaying the batch of Canada soccer.
1:37.6	So we have one very happy podcaster.
1:40.2	We have one who was a neutral slash rooting for Canada.
1:45.1	A lot of various stress text messages happened this morning in various group chats.
1:50.2	So, Steph, I will just honestly seed the floor to you since I feel like this is your time to shine.
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