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Full Time: A show about women's soccer

Tokyo Olympics: Battle of the Bagels with Shireen Ahmed

Full Time: A show about women's soccer

The Athletic

Women's Soccer, News, Soccer, Nwsl, Sports News, Wsl, Sports

4.8807 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It’s USA vs. Canada in the semifinals, what Meg has decided to call the Battle of the Bagels but also serves as a perfect rematch of the epic 2012 Olympic semifinal between the two teams. Preeminent Canadian Shireen Ahmed joins the pod to determine the stress levels on both sides of this semifinal ahead of Monday’s game.


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0:00.0

He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then...

0:09.0

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season season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Hello, Meg here, and you're listening to Full Time with Meg Linnehan, a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. We have got a 2012 rematch on our hands with the United States and Canada

1:01.6

back playing each other in the Olympic semifinals. And I thought, well, who is the best

1:07.5

Canadian that I know? And the answer, of course, is Shereen Ahmed, and she is back

1:12.2

on today's preview pod here at full time. Before we get into it, subscribe at The Athletic

1:17.7

for all of our women's soccer coverage and beyond. There's always a deal for you at

1:22.1

theathletic.com slash full time. All right, Shereen, we are, we are friends, we are mortal enemies, maybe at least for

1:33.0

roughly, you know, 16 hours, whatever time is left between now and the end of this game.

1:42.5

First of all, I've decided,

1:47.1

so you had Wendy's for lunch today.

1:49.6

I actually went to a Montreal bagel spot,

1:51.3

so we have traded each other's food in a very interesting dynamic.

1:54.7

But then as I was eating this amazing sandwich

1:56.8

that I got on a Montreal bagel,

1:58.5

I was just like,

1:59.7

we could technically call this game the

2:01.9

Battle of the Bagels. We could, but I had French fries and frosty, so I'm really not sure

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