Tokyo Olympics: Weird Vibes and Taking the Pressure Off
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Rueter of The Athletic joins Full Time for our final matchday minus-one preview episode ahead of the bronze and gold medal matches on Thursday. We talk about joy and some of the overall impressions of the USWNT through this tournament and what comes next, plus Jeff flips the script and asks me a couple of questions about what trying to cover the Olympics remotely has been like compared to the 2019 World Cup.
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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. It is Wednesday, and we are one day away from Thursday's bronze medal match between the United States and Australia and the gold medal match between Sweden and Canada. Reminder, if you are here in the United States, you'll be watching both of those games on USA Network. USA versus Australia, |
| 0:39.8 | again, 4 a.m. Eastern, Sweden versus Canada, 10 p.m. Eastern, there has been a request to actually |
| 0:46.1 | move the game because of the conditions with the heat. So stay tuned on that front. I'm sure there |
| 0:52.2 | will be an update on Twitter if that request from Sweden and Canada is actually successful. |
| 0:57.0 | Anyway, co-worker and fellow dogso tattoo hever, Jeff Reuter, is here to help me on our final match day minus one episode of our Olympics coverage. |
| 1:07.1 | Yes, we are coming to the end of this long, long journey. Before we get into it, |
| 1:12.8 | subscribe to the athletic for all of our women's soccer coverage and beyond. There's always a deal |
| 1:16.8 | for you at theathletic.com slash full time. Hello, Jeff. I'm Meg. All right, so it's Wednesday. |
| 1:27.4 | I got to wake up at 3 o'clock, well, 255 a.m. to be on the press conference for the U.S. women's national team ahead of the bronze medal match. |
| 1:35.6 | Steph, our fellow coworker, woke up where I think just actually stayed awake because Australia was at 1.15 a.m. |
| 1:42.0 | The U.S. was at 3 a.m. and they were actually 15 minutes late. So which NWSL team is going to say, you know what? This is the new normal. Our press conferences are at 3 a.m. Please. Please, Lord, no. But, yeah, I can see someone being like, yeah, that feels like a great plan. At least for the next month. |
| 2:02.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:03.6 | You know, you guys are already in this zone of 3 a.m. press conferences. |
| 2:07.6 | We might as well just roll with it. |
| 2:09.5 | Brutal. |
| 2:11.5 | So as someone who is maybe not like, you know, first time on this Olympic edition of the podcast, you've |
| 2:18.8 | been following along, just kind of, what is your perspective of the U.S. Women's National |
| 2:25.3 | team been throughout this tournament? Because I find it really interesting to talk to people |
| 2:30.3 | that I haven't been talking to kind of every day about what's going on. |
| 2:36.4 | It's, I mean this in the nicest way possible. |
| 2:39.9 | It is very strange to have a tournament where even my most casual, like, only watch |
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