Hello, Megalahan here, and you are listening to the first episode of our special Olympics edition of full time with Magalindahan today.

Deputy managing editor of our soccer vertical Brooks Peck joins me to preview the tournament and our coverage at the athletic.

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.

Plus, we've got the NWSL, the appeal for the equal pay fight is incoming soon,

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There's always a deal for you at theathletic.com slash full time.

All right, here's Brooks.

All right, Brooks.

Let's start with the fact that these Olympics are actually happening at all because it

feels like we're getting like a new story about COVID-19 every two to three hours at this

point.

I mean, between Cocoa Gough and Katie Lou Samuelson, we're just starting to hit some sort of, I don't want to say critical

mess because I don't think anything is going to stop this Olympics, but it's feeling less

and less great by the hour at this point.

It already didn't feel great to start with.

So that's saying something.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

It's just a rough way to even just go into the opening ceremonies.

It just doesn't feel enjoyable.

It's just, I mean, I think we always knew that this tournament was going to have, you know, not the tournament even.

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