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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where next time

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Speaker 1: channel Jaden Shaw's energy under dog may Ass. It's Monday,

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Speaker 1: November tenth, and on today's show, we'll recap a wild

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Speaker 1: NWSL playoff weekend, including the biggest upset we've seen in years,

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Speaker 1: And with just under three months until the Milan Courtina

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Speaker 1: Winter Olympics, we're bringing you an interview with sisters Ali,

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Speaker 1: Lauren and Sam Masuga, who could become the first siblings

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Speaker 1: same Winter Olympics. Alex sat down with them at last

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Speaker 1: month's Team USA summit to discuss how they got their

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Speaker 1: start in three different winter sports moguls for Ali, alpine

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Speaker 1: skiing for Lauren, and ski jumping for Sam, and why

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Speaker 1: their parents might need a helicopter if they want to

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Speaker 1: watch their daughters compete in February, Plus walloping America's Hat,

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Speaker 1: Don't Say Cheese, and Welcome to Atlanta, where the players play.

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Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this. Welcome Back Slices.

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Speaker 1: Hope you had a great weekend. Here's what you need

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Speaker 1: to know today Let's start in the NWSL, because where

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Speaker 1: else would we start an absolutely incredible weekend of quarterfinal matches,

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Speaker 1: three out of four of them going into extra time.

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Speaker 1: And if I told you every home team would emerge

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Speaker 1: victorious except for one, would you guess the loser was

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Speaker 1: the team that hadn't dropped a home game since July

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Speaker 1: of last year. Yeah, we're starting with the number eight

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Speaker 1: seed Gotham ousting the number one seed Kansas City Current,

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Speaker 1: the current, unbeaten at home all season, owners of just

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Speaker 1: about every regular season record. There is the clear top

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Speaker 1: Buzzsaw can't be stopped. Favorites, and that's why you play

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Speaker 1: the game. Gotham got on the board first, as forward

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Speaker 1: Jaden Shaw beat multiple defenders to put the visitors up

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Speaker 1: one nil in the sixty eighth minute. The Current pulled

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Speaker 1: sixth minute of second half stoppage time, the latest game

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Speaker 1: tying regulation goal in NWSL playoff history, but Gotham's Katie

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Speaker 1: second extra time period. The one hundred and twentieth minute

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Speaker 2: They saw they saweventy one.

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Speaker 3: Now we would then.

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Speaker 4: By you came out here today and who called the

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Speaker 5: Everything on one of you?

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Speaker 1: That game a reminder that anything can happen in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: especially when the Gotham Batties are playing out of the

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Speaker 1: minute that year, scoring to send to Gotham to their

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Speaker 1: We're making it out to be underdog my ass. Shaw

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Speaker 3: She'll stick with the Current through twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: As for the other NWSL playoff matches, the other Sunday

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Speaker 1: twenty four champs. To quote, NWSL social not new to this,

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Speaker 1: true to this. More soccer sources told The Athletic that

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Speaker 1: which is the holding company of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons,

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Speaker 1: Atlanta United FC of the MLS, and Mercedes Benz Stadium,

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Speaker 1: where the new NWSL team will play its home matches.

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Speaker 1: The team is expected to debut sometime after the twenty

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Speaker 1: of Saturday's Spirit Racing game, Commissioner Jessica Berman made her

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Speaker 1: Regarding the league's lack of an official policy on gender eligibility,

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Speaker 3: To educate ourselves, to listen, to learn, to.

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Speaker 3: Our sport deserves that. She went on.

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Speaker 1: Our policy is our current practice, which is that every

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Speaker 1: and we should collectively rally around them, protect them, and

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Speaker 1: Okay, but saying our policy is our current practice, which

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Speaker 1: How if there's no policy to point to for their eligibility,

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Speaker 1: and that lack of policy leaves players open to harassment

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Speaker 1: they're going to need more than to say our policy

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Speaker 3: Even more soccer half.

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Speaker 1: Of the Northern Super League Final is set, as the

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Speaker 1: Vancouver Rise secured its spot, defeating Ottawa Rapid FC in

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Speaker 1: this week. To tennis Kazakhstans Elena Ribakino won the women's

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Speaker 1: singles title at the WTA Finals in Riod, Saudi Arabia

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Speaker 1: It's Rabakkana's first WTA Finals win, making her the tenth

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Speaker 1: WTA CEO Portia Archer. The snub likely the result of

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Speaker 1: a WTA investigation into Rebaccana's coach, Stefano Vukov. Vukov was

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Speaker 1: the WTA entered private arbitration. In a confidential letter obtained

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Speaker 1: by the Athletic Archer summariz Vukov's violations as quote, engaging

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Speaker 1: expense of the best interest of the player end quote.

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Speaker 1: on the investigation and the reported dynamic between coach and athlete.

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Speaker 1: In women's doubles at the WTA Finals, Viveronica kuter Matova

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Speaker 1: defeating Timiya bab Bosch and Luisa Stephanie seven sixty one

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Speaker 1: to College hoops. USC freshman Jazzy Davidson scored twenty one points,

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Speaker 1: including the go ahead layup with eight point two seconds

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Speaker 3: On Sunday. London Jones, who transferred from.

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Speaker 1: Now remember, in my college hoops preview, I wondered aloud

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Speaker 6: Now Hailing from Park City, Utah, she's a mogul skier

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Speaker 5: Hello, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 6: It's Lauren Masuga, that's me. Hey, I'm assuming you didn't

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for having us on intro.

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Speaker 6: I know, when you have three people, it's a lot

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Speaker 6: Sam. I'm gonna start with you. I think a lot

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Speaker 6: Their parents must have a grand plan for Olympic dominance.

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Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, as their parents are sitting right behind me.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I know, we're gonna let you in on the

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, people always ask like, wow, this must have been intentional.

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Speaker 5: And no, that's super not what happened with us.

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Speaker 4: It was always I mean we're from Park City, where

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Speaker 5: Way to do it.

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Speaker 4: It shouldn't be this crazy trying to put people on

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Speaker 5: There as the oldest.

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Speaker 6: I'm guessing you were probably the one that was figuring

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Speaker 4: Mine, well, I think all of ours actually were a

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Speaker 6: Was there ever a moment where one of you kind

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Speaker 6: Sam, sticking with you. All of your disciplines are technically

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Speaker 4: Mikayla Schiffrin and all that, And then like moguls, like

437
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,919
Speaker 4: they also have a whole different structure because it's it's

438
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 4: so different, like there's way less people in the circuit

439
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,239
Speaker 4: and you guys have less events, so it's not it's

440
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Speaker 4: usually comparing just to have a good idea of where

441
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 4: everybody's at and like you know, especially with sponsors, especially

442
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:21,679
Speaker 4: like how to approach them with the sports.

443
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Speaker 5: But it's not really like a negative comparison. It's just

444
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Speaker 5: like informational. I think it's good to know.

445
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Speaker 6: As you've continued your journey, have there been financial challenges

446
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 6: that you've had to kind of figure out ways to

447
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 6: be able to meet the moment in order to be

448
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Speaker 6: able to compete at the events that you needed to.

449
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Speaker 4: There's been times in ski jumming we've had a couple

450
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Speaker 4: of problems just because like yes we're technically US Ski Team,

451
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 4: but for a while we kind of weren't. And our

452
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,200
Speaker 4: team like almost went under a couple of times just

453
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Speaker 4: because we don't receive funding from the US Ski Team.

454
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Speaker 5: It's like a.

455
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Speaker 4: Whole I wish I could understand what's going on, but

456
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Speaker 4: we have our own fundraising and funding organization, and so

457
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Speaker 4: it's really cool that we're still here.

458
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Speaker 5: But like we had a whole thing where.

459
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Speaker 4: We used to be with Norda combined and we unfortunately

460
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Speaker 4: had to drop them because we couldn't support both of

461
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Speaker 4: the sports outside of the US skate team umbrella. So

462
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Speaker 4: it's luckily for me, it hasn't been fortunate enough that

463
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Speaker 4: I haven't had personal like I haven't had to consider

464
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Speaker 4: quitting because I haven't been able to afford it. But

465
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Speaker 4: I had a lot of my teammates ex teammates especially

466
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Speaker 4: I've had to quit because the team just can't support

467
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Speaker 4: them through these times.

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Speaker 6: Lauren, during your breakout season last year, assuming that came

469
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Speaker 6: with a lot more kind of prize money and sponsorship opportunities.

470
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Speaker 6: In fact, when you won that first World Cup race

471
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Speaker 6: in January, you still had a question mark on the

472
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Speaker 6: center of your helmet where our sponsor's name usually goes.

473
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Speaker 6: How long had you been racing with that question mark

474
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Speaker 6: up until that point?

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Speaker 5: Oh, that is the best question. So it's hard to believe.

476
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Speaker 5: But that day in hospitality, like thirty minutes before going

477
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Speaker 5: up to my run, I was like, oh my gosh,

478
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 5: like I gotta do something like it's just so blank,

479
00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 5: and my teammates Tricia and Keeley. I think Tricia was like, oh,

480
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 5: I have some like KT tape, and Kili was like,

481
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Speaker 5: let's put a question mark on it. So I gave

482
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Speaker 5: Killie my helmet. She took the KT tape and just

483
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 5: put it on. So it was like, you look like

484
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,920
Speaker 5: closely at it. It is a it's a beautiful question mark,

485
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 5: but a hack dram a question mark. You're like, what

486
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 5: is going on here? And I went up to the

487
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,199
Speaker 5: start in my pt she like starts us up there.

488
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 5: She's like, all right, you just do you. I don't

489
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 5: know what's going on here. And then I happen to win.

490
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Speaker 5: I was like, like, what are the odds of this

491
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Speaker 5: like throwing that on? And then when I was like,

492
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Speaker 5: oh my gosh, this is so fun. But it was

493
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Speaker 5: just like a fun way of being like, oh, like

494
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Speaker 5: my forehead is available, Like yeah, that is one of

495
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 5: our biggest like opportunities for us to like make a living.

496
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Speaker 5: And I mean it worked. It brought a lot of

497
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Speaker 5: attention doing it on the winning day and that was

498
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Speaker 5: a wild time. There was definitely a lot going on

499
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Speaker 5: with that.

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Speaker 6: How long did it take somebody to step up and say, okay,

501
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Speaker 6: I want to fill that that blank spot?

502
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Speaker 5: So actually it didn't take long. But the hard part

503
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Speaker 5: was so we were in like the met still racing,

504
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 5: so we had a Cortina Race World Cup. The next weekend,

505
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Speaker 5: I was like, I've never been approached by so many things,

506
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 5: Like luckily I had my agent, but I was like,

507
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 5: I don't know what to do, Like it was so stressful.

508
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 5: So I actually ended up putting it off for a

509
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 5: little bit. Went into Courtina. I was actually so stressed

510
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 5: that I was like getting sick, and I was like, okay,

511
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 5: didn't Like I did well there, but not as well

512
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Speaker 5: as I was like hoping, So I was like, Okay.

513
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 5: Going in Garmish the next weekend, I was like, I'm

514
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 5: just gonna go ski race. I'm gonna just hold off

515
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 5: on that, Like I came out here to have fun

516
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 5: and ski race. And don't get me wrong, I need

517
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 5: to make like I need to make a living. I

518
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 5: will have to move out of my parents' house eventually,

519
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 5: But I first and foremost I wanted to ski race,

520
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 5: and if that was going to take away from that,

521
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 5: I was going to hold off on it. So I

522
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 5: waited till the end of the season and ended up

523
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Speaker 5: finishing out the season and still had some great results.

524
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Speaker 5: Love it.

525
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Speaker 6: Do you all still have your own respective bedroom and

526
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 6: your parents' house?

527
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 4: Yeah?

528
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, but like half moved out.

529
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have an apartment in Norway because I'm in

530
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Speaker 4: Park City like four weeks of the year, so that's

531
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Speaker 4: technically my residence, but I don't really live there.

532
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Speaker 3: Ali.

533
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Speaker 6: As I mentioned in your intro, you have experienced post

534
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Speaker 6: concussion syndrome, and I was wondering if you'd be willing

535
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 6: to speak about just kind of what the experience was

536
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 6: like for you last season, in particular dealing with that

537
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 6: and finding yourself on the slopes trying to get through

538
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 6: a really tough situation.

539
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really rough, just not knowing what it

540
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 2: was and being told that I have it.

541
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 5: I was like, okay, like doing all.

542
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 2: This research trying to figure out what helps what doesn't,

543
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 2: which is like in quotation marks helps, like you don't

544
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 2: really know. It's kind of just trying the figure out

545
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 2: to the individual what you think makes you feel better

546
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 2: or like helps the symptoms. And so for me, like

547
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 2: the symptoms that were really bad was my focus in

548
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 2: my vision, which does not help in skiing, like not

549
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 2: knowing what's a bump and what's a jump. And then

550
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 2: just like the anxiety that came with all that, like

551
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 2: I'm flipping constantly and I couldn't get myself to do that,

552
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 2: Like I was scared instead of how I used to

553
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 2: be excited.

554
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 5: So that changed a lot of things. So the season, the.

555
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 2: First couple of World Cups, I competed, and it was

556
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 2: really hard just because I found I wasn't competing how

557
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 2: I wanted to. Like I was in tears after my

558
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 2: first World Cup because I think I was just so

559
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: relieved I made it down, which usually if I'm in tears,

560
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 2: it's because I'm so happy to be there. But so

561
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 2: that was a rude awakening to Okay, I need to

562
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 2: really focus in on like healing myself and trying to

563
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 2: figure out how I can find the love again, because

564
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 2: many times throughout last season I wanted to quit because

565
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not enjoying this, Like this is

566
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 2: so painful that I'm not it doesn't feel like I'm

567
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 2: getting anywhere.

568
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Speaker 5: I'm just getting worse.

569
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Speaker 2: But I was really lucky to have like my family

570
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 2: to support me and my coaches, teammates and so much help.

571
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 2: So feeling way better, especially this summer, started to find

572
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 2: the love again. So very excited for this season.

573
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Speaker 5: Happy to hear it.

574
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,959
Speaker 6: Sam looking ahead to the Winter Olympics, in February. These

575
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 6: games are going to be very unique even for Winter Olympics,

576
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 6: and that they are quite spread out across the country.

577
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 6: In gosh, Moguls, in ski jumping, and alpine skiing all

578
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 6: in three different clusters. Alpine and ski jumping are pretty close,

579
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 6: only three hours apart. Moguls though about ten hours away,

580
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 6: with a couple mountain ranges in between. Have you all

581
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 6: thought at all about whether or not you would be

582
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Speaker 6: able to see each other compete should you all make

583
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 6: it there.

584
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 5: We have definitely thought about it, and the best part

585
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 5: is one of it is we all compete on the

586
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Speaker 5: same day.

587
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Speaker 6: Oh maybe I should get mom and dad in here.

588
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 5: How are you gonna deal with that? Yeah, we've had it's.

589
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Speaker 4: Favorite.

590
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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

591
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 4: No, it's a logistical nightmare. It's the kind of thing

592
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 4: where we've talked about and it's just like, well, there's

593
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 4: no solution. We're just start joking. We're like, we need

594
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 4: a helicopter. So if anybody has a helicopter and wants

595
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 4: to fly our parents around, maybe flying around I don't

596
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 4: know it to be nice, but yeah, I mean, it's

597
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 4: cool that they're using so many spaces, but it is

598
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 4: I can't imagine trying to be a spectator, trying to

599
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 4: go to different things. Being an athlete's already a nightmare.

600
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 4: Like some of us have to skip the opening ceremonies

601
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 4: because it's so far away. Yeah, I wish I could

602
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Speaker 4: say we had a plan.

603
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Speaker 3: We have no idea.

604
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Speaker 6: Well, best of luck to your family and to the

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Speaker 6: three of you. Thank you so much for taking the

606
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Speaker 6: time today.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Thanks Alex.

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Speaker 3: The Massugas are absolutely delightful.

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Speaker 1: Does anyone else think dropping a mic into a room

610
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Speaker 1: full of Massugas and Mars, you know Alona and her

611
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: sisters would be absolutely hysterical. I just got some of

612
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: those good, funny sisterly vibes.

613
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:48,719
Speaker 3: Loved that convo.

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Speaker 1: Super excited to hear the rest of your interviews from

615
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: the Team USAY summit, and excited to keep getting to

616
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: know some of these athletes.

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Speaker 3: Ahead of the games.

618
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Speaker 1: And just a reminder that we are traveling to Italy

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Speaker 1: to cover these events in person, so you know, the

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Speaker 1: helicopter people want to sponsor us too.

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Speaker 3: Hit us up. We got to take another break when

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Speaker 3: we come back.

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Speaker 1: If it's called free soccer, why does it feel like

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Speaker 1: it's costing us our lives?

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Speaker 3: Welcome back slices.

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Speaker 1: We love that you're listening, but we want you to

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Speaker 1: like for slice. Marsha, who's been traveling to catch college

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Speaker 1: She wrote in to say this quote, Sarah, what a

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Speaker 1: treat to hear you spill some tea about Kim Maulke,

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Speaker 1: get me giggling with anticipation about the upcoming unrivaled season,

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Speaker 1: and then chat with Lisa Bluter.

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Speaker 3: A trifecta for sure for me.

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Speaker 1: Watch three or four NWSL quarterfinals needing extra time or

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Speaker 1: If you were sitting in a pool of your own

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Speaker 1: a mix of sweat and tears hull, well, here's to

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Speaker 3: Matter how it ended.

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Speaker 1: And here's to the Gotham batties saying f you to

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Speaker 1: of absolutely bonkers footy. Thank you NWSL. The extra time

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Speaker 1: likely took time off our lives, but it was well

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Speaker 1: worth it. Can't wait to see what you got for

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Speaker 1: us next weekend. Now it's your turn, rate and review.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. See you tomorrow. Good Game, Ali, Lauren

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