Guys, we made it. It is December 31st, 2021 somehow, and this concludes both the year and our week-long stretch of our favorite episodes from the last 365 days.

And today's episode, we're playing it for you because it originally aired in June ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games, but it's still relevant today for reasons you will soon find obvious.

It is the incredible journey of a scientist who helped develop the first FDA-approved COVID vaccine,

the vaccine that's been credited with saving millions of lives, the vaccine that's still our way out of everything,

and also her Olympian daughter.

So we hope you enjoy it.

And happy New Year.

More steps are now being taken to keep athletes and officials safe at the Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

The International Olympic Committee, the IOC, says that Pfizer plans to donate vaccines to Olympians and to Olympic officials.

They'll be vaccinated before they get into Tokyo.

You can feel it now, this lockdown planet opening back up with the coronavirus vaccine as the key.

And now, as the sports world turns to its biggest stage, the Olympic Games, just one month away,

we tell the story of the scientist responsible for the optimism you may be feeling.

And her daughter, an Olympian, who, like her mom, refused to give up.

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Thursday, June 24th. This is ESPN Day.

Julie, it is a wild time to be talking to you right now.

You're in the middle of covering Euro 2020, an event that had been delayed due to COVID.

The Olympics are also right on the horizon, also thrown into flux by the coronavirus pandemic.

But you have this documentary feature that you've been preparing for E60 that feels like it sits at the center of this entire messy Venn diagram.

It is about sports.

It is about science.

It is about the pandemic and the Olympics and one particular family.

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