Tokyo Olympics: Quarterfinal Chaos

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

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Four teams have moved on in the Olympics, with the USWNT, Canada, Australia and Sweden all now looking to bring home some medals. Steph Yang is back, and we discuss all four quarterfinals, how watching overlapping knockout rounds destroyed us, Alyssa Naeher stepping up for the USWNT and also discuss today’s update in the USWNT players’ appeal for equal pay, with the players of the USMNT throwing their support behind them for not just equal pay, but more pay. 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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0:00.0	What kind of weekend are you in the mood for?
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0:06.0	Whether that be two days of twists and turns with only murders in the building,
0:11.0	drama and fine dining with The Bear,
0:13.0	or a journey back to feudal Japan with Shogun.
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0:24.0	Learn more at Disneyplus.com. 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.
0:49.2	We are back to Olympics mode.
0:51.1	Steph Yang is here to relive a wild day of Olympic order.
0:56.4	Finals, the U.S. women's national team advancing over the Netherlands via penalty kicks,
1:01.3	Australia, Sweden, and Canada, the other three teams to advance.
1:05.2	Plus, we've got the latest from the players appeal for equal pay. Amicus briefs were filed today with the ninth
1:13.3	circuit court of appeals including ones from the players association for the men's national team
1:18.0	and the equal employment opportunity commission which literally happened right as we
1:22.8	were recording the show so here's step we will just get right into it. We, we just went for it today.
1:29.3	Here we go. All right, Steph. I have zero notes for this podcast. We are in full
1:37.0	4 a.m. wake up. Everything is happening all at the same time. Four quarter finals plus amicus briefs dropping in the equal pay lawsuit appeal part of it.
1:49.3	Plus the NWSL just announced that they settled their antitrust lawsuit with Olivia Moultrie.
1:54.0	Like everything is happening.
1:55.7	We are just going to attempt to maybe get some words out that make sense and then put them on the internet. And then
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