Tokyo Olympics: "There's Still a Medal on the Line"

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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.