Hello, Meg here, and you're listening to Full Time with Meg Linahan, a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network.

It is Thursday, and the U.S. women's national team has just defeated Australia

4 to 3 to win the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Steph Young, as always, is here to discuss

the game. Before we get into it, though, subscribe to The Athletic for all of our women's soccer

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So that ended in a fashion that was maybe more interesting than it needed to be.

But really, I guess it is kind of fitting considering this entire tournament and how we have

suffered that we did deserve a no defense,

just vibes game.

That's what we got.

I mean, seven goals, one of them was pretty late, and, you know, the United States goes

into five in the back to hold on to a lead.

It was very, if I had to be awake at 4 a.m., at least they gave me that.

They gave us chaos.

It's not a bad thing.

Yeah.

I feel a little bad for Australia.

You could see, like, Caitlin Ford and some mothers were really having a sharp word for

the ref at the end, because she just blew.

She just blew for full time.

Like, they should have gotten a corner kick. Play had stopped, and she's like, no, that's enough. Even though there was an injury and stoppage that should have added probably at least another 30 seconds, maybe a minute. She's like, no, we're done here. I'd like to go home. And I was like, a 4-3 Olympic game where one team kind of got jobbed by the ref. Where have I heard that before? Why is this familiar? I mean, I do, my main

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