Tokyo Olympics: "There's Still a Medal on the Line"
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Sweden and Canada picked up semifinal wins to advance to the Gold medal match in Japan, while the USWNT and Australia will play for bronze on Thursday morning (4 a.m. ET). Steph Yang joins the pod for our game day breakdown of the historic result for Canada, another underwhelming result for the U.S. and what it might mean for the team moving forward.
Read Steph’s article, ‘What’s gone wrong for the USWNT at the Olympics’: https://theathletic.com/2746578/2021/08/02/uswnt-olympics-what-went-wrong/
Read Meg’s article, ‘Lacking their usual joy, the USWNT’s Olympic flaws are tough to pin on one root cause’: https://theathletic.com/2746658/2021/08/02/uswnt-olympics-losses/
For all our Olympic women’s soccer coverage at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/tag/tokyo-2020-womens-soccer/
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:23.6 | This Monday, we have our gold and bronze metal matchups with Canada defeating the U.S. 1-0 to advance and play Sweden for gold and the U.S. facing Australia for bronze. |
| 0:36.3 | Steph Young of The Athletic joins me as as always, for our game day breakdowns. |
| 0:39.9 | But before we get into it, subscribe to The Athletic for all of our women's soccer coverage and beyond. |
| 0:44.7 | There's always a deal for you at theathletic.com slash full time. |
| 0:50.5 | I mean, there's a number of places where we could start this episode, but generally, like, I just... |
| 0:56.4 | My one main takeaway from the end of that game in which I really did not feel anything was because it... |
| 1:03.5 | All of this tournament has just felt like waiting for this result after sweet... |
| 1:09.3 | Like, none of this has felt good the entire time. |
| 1:13.5 | It was just when it was going to happen. |
| 1:16.9 | Because it did not feel like any of this was, it was just, it was not good. |
| 1:22.6 | It was not good. |
| 1:23.3 | You just kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. |
| 1:27.7 | And you hoped maybe they would walk the tight rope to at least the gold medal match, right? |
| 1:32.7 | Even if they didn't win against now Sweden, Sweden just beat Australia. |
| 1:39.0 | And honestly, Australia looked like they had the better of Sweden for a while. |
| 1:42.3 | So great. |
| 1:43.0 | Good for you guys. |
| 1:44.4 | Congrats Matilda's for looking better than we ever did, |
| 1:47.8 | even though you're still now going to the bronze medal game, |
| 1:50.7 | where we will see you. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah, at this time, actually, someone is going to have to play to win. |
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