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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're counting

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Speaker 1: down the days to the twenty twenty eight LA Olympics

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Speaker 1: fourteen hundred and thirty two days, and the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six Winter Olympics five hundred and forty three days and

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Speaker 1: the Paralympics just sixteen days. On today's show, we're going

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Speaker 1: to be handing out grades to the Paris Olympics and

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Speaker 1: giving you all the deeps on how to keep watching

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Speaker 1: the women that you fell in love with at the Games.

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Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this. Welcome back, my

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Speaker 1: little orange slices. Here's what you need to know today.

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Speaker 1: Dutch cyclist Charlotte Coole won the opening stage of the

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Speaker 1: Tour de France FEM to earn the yellow jersey. Cool

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Speaker 1: has struggled so far this season, and after the race

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Speaker 1: she said she'd been dealing with respiratory issues earlier in

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Speaker 1: the year that finally cleared up in the NWSL. Angel

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Speaker 1: City announced on Monday that the club has signed England

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Speaker 1: national team midfielder Katie Zelam through twenty twenty six. Zellum,

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Speaker 1: the former captain for Manchester United, will join the team

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Speaker 1: for the remainder of the NWSL season. The Division one

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Speaker 1: soccer season kicks off on Thursday. How is that possible?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, how do we have college boards starting already? Okay? So,

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Speaker 1: defending national champion Florida State currently sits at number one

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, currently number eight in the rankings, broke some

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Speaker 1: pretty huge news over the weekend. Head coach Anson Dorrance

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Speaker 1: is retiring after forty five seasons. Dorance's twenty one NCAA

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Speaker 1: ninety one. Now, while Durrance is highly decorated, his time

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Speaker 1: While Dorance denied the allegations, he did admit to talking

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Speaker 1: Drance was working with a very different roster from last year.

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Speaker 1: reported that twenty one players from that season's roster were

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Speaker 1: Plus three coaches have left in the past two years,

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Speaker 1: one of whom Alex Kimball, exited after only a few

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Speaker 1: The news of his retirement comes less than three months

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Speaker 1: after an assemblyanc dot com story that featured insight from

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Speaker 1: former players, some of whom spoke positively about their experience

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Speaker 1: You can read the story via a link in our

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Speaker 1: show notes. Also some WNBA news today. Los Angeles Sparks

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Speaker 1: a federal lawsuit against her former WNBA team, the Las

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Speaker 1: and in June of twenty two, she signed a two

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Speaker 1: The WNBA investigated Hamby's claims of discrimination back in twenty

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Speaker 1: how we want to handle difficult stories like this. So,

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Speaker 1: for instance, this show Good Game launched right after the

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Speaker 1: health for employees at the San Diego Wave under their president,

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Speaker 1: Jill Ellis we wanted to talk about it, but the

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Speaker 1: There are just often several sides to a story, and

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Speaker 1: story as we get them. Okay, so we've all got

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Speaker 1: Women's Scottish Open tennis season rolling on with the Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: League One Volleyball abbreviated as LOVB but pronounced like Love,

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Speaker 1: rudely over and what a games. It was a smashing

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Speaker 1: So the Olympic lows we got to start with swimming

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Speaker 1: The Zambian Copper Queens performed valiantly in the face of

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