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. This, first of all, Pablo, is a gift of a story. It's a reporter's dream.

Julie Fowdy is an Olympic and World Cup champion with the U.S. women's national team. And now she's a soccer commentator and reporter for ESPN.

You have a mom who is a scientist who has toiled for decades on something that she believes deeply in

and this technology that led to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine.

That's the scientific community took so long to understand. You have a daughter who's an athlete who doesn't realize her full potential until

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