Tokyo Olympics: Let The Games Begin

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

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Olympics are almost here — and we’re shifting into tournament mode at Full Time. Brooks Peck, deputy managing editor at The Athletic’s soccer vertical, helps kick off the first Olympics edition of the show as we preview the tournament and what we’re watching for in Japan, plus give you an overview of how to follow the tournament via our coverage. Plus: how to watch the opening day of games in the U.S.! For all our Olympic women’s soccer coverage at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/tag/tokyo-2020-womens-soccer/ Our guide to the tournament (free and unlocked to read): https://theathletic.com/2711374/2021/07/16/tokyo-2020-olympics-womens-football-soccer-guide/ For even more Olympics podcasting from The Athletic, subscribe to The Offside Rule: Olympics Edition on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-offside-rule-olympics-edition/id1478431097 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.2	I'm going to... Hello, Megalindahan here, and you are listening to the first episode of our special Olympics edition of full-time with Megalindahan.
1:30.3	Today, deputy managing editor of our soccer vertical, Brooks Peck, joins me to preview the tournament and our coverage at The Athletic.
1:37.7	But before we get into it, you can subscribe to The Athletic for all of our women's soccer coverage and beyond, but we're all in on the Olympics, obviously.
1:43.8	Plus, we've got the NWSL, the appeal for the equal pay fight is incoming soon, all the other sports we cover.
1:45.0	There's always a deal for you at Theathletic.com slash full time. All right, here's Brooks. All right, Brooks. Let's start
1:52.8	with the fact that these Olympics are actually happening at all, because it feels like we're getting
1:59.2	like a new story about COVID-19 every two to three hours at this point.
2:04.1	I mean, between Cocoa Gough and Katie Lou Samuelson,
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