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USA Receives Gold Medals & World Cup Trophy | Full Presentation · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: So many incredible other players around you. It's just cool
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  Speaker 1: to see. Yeah, I mean, you're next up.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's exciting to be on the team is
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  Speaker 2: an honor, first of all.
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  Speaker 1: And then everybody got to play.
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  Speaker 2: And we've seen from the past Olympics and past times,
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  Speaker 2: that's not always the case.
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  Speaker 1: You don't always get a taste of the court.
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  Speaker 2: And play when you're on a team so I think
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  Speaker 2: everybody should leave Berlin excited energized to get back to
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  Speaker 2: their WNBA team because when you have moments like this
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  Speaker 2: it just you get on a basketball high you know
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  Speaker 2: you've just seen basketball at the highest level you're on
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  Speaker 2: the world stage and so now you take that energy
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  Speaker 2: back to you home.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah and it's going to be fun to have that
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  Speaker 3: energy Bringing back here to the USA, five consecutive gold medals.
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  Speaker 3: Calm down, Jackie, she's so hyped. I know, I look
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  Speaker 3: at Jackie, she's so pumped up right now. Just your
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  Speaker 3: thoughts about the bridging of the gap between two generations, too.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Stewart. It's always a balancing act, right?
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  Speaker 4: You can't put too much in the past, but you
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  Speaker 4: also have to prepare for the future. Experience played huge.
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  Speaker 4: in this tournament. I mean, we saw the experience firsthand.
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  Speaker 4: We saw that winning is a skill that you build
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  Speaker 4: and you know how to do, and.
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  Speaker 1: You know the moments to conquer that in.
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  Speaker 4: In Brianna Stewart, in Jackie, and in Chelsea Gray, who
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  Speaker 4: have won a lot of championships in the WNBA. So
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  Speaker 4: you saw that. But who's up next, right? Like, what
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  Speaker 4: are the next players that are sitting at home right
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  Speaker 4: now that are going to be playing in the next
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  Speaker 4: world championships? What is this team going to look like
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  Speaker 4: And I think from the standpoint that we can hang
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  Speaker 4: our hats on is in USA, we have solid front
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  Speaker 4: court players that are mobile, active, can knock down shots,
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  Speaker 4: and we have guards that can do a number of
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  Speaker 4: things and score it at three levels. So I think
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  Speaker 4: for all those that are sitting at home that are
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  Speaker 4: hoping to be in this position, it is about continuing
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  Speaker 4: to work hard, continuing to build, but it's also about
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  Speaker 4: listening and learning and knowing how USA has continued to
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  Speaker 4: be dominant like this.
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  Speaker 1: Tina, what's it like then threading gold medal around your
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  Speaker 1: neck like that? Um, it's amazing. It's surreal. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you get emotional.
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  Speaker 5: Um, you know, one of the... one of the main.
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  Speaker 1: Grabbing the trophy. Bringing it out to the team that
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  Speaker 1: she handpicked.
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  Speaker 3: I know we had to cut you off before the
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  Speaker 3: national anthem, but what is it like having that gold
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  Speaker 3: medal strung around your neck at the World Cup?
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  Speaker 1: It's surreal. It's very emotional.
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  Speaker 5: Just all the sacrifice mentally, emotionally, physically. You know, you're
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  Speaker 5: coming from your WNBA team. Then you got to go
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  Speaker 5: back there. So just for me personally, it was just
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  Speaker 5: always an emotional time. But you always want to take
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  Speaker 5: it in. You know, don't take it for granted. You
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  Speaker 5: don't know what it's going to be like in the
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  Speaker 5: next four years for you. So you got to definitely
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  Speaker 5: enjoy your time and just being able to play with
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  Speaker 5: the best players in the world alongside of you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you look alongside. And I know, Renee, you said
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  Speaker 1: it as a point guard. It's like a buffet. You
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  Speaker 1: look left, you look right. You have all-stars everywhere that
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  Speaker 1: you want to pass to.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why it's such an honor to make the
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  Speaker 2: USA team because you know how many talented players play
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  Speaker 2: in America.
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  Speaker 1: And you know how many.
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  Speaker 2: especially when you get to a certain age too you
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  Speaker 2: know how many good young players are coming up so
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  Speaker 2: you take advantage of all these moments you want to
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  Speaker 2: take them all in but okay wait a minute all
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  Speaker 2: right like i'm not giving for sure this one.
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  Speaker 3: Usa world champions for the fifth consecutive tournaments dating all
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  Speaker 3: the way back to 2010.
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  Speaker 1: Incredible stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations to all the women on USA Basketball.
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  Speaker 1: So deserved.