“I WOULD SLAP MY FACE AS HARD AS I COULD THREE TIMES IN A ROW”

00:00:00 Welcome to the Party (Milan Edition)
00:12:46 Shiffrin Makes History (Again) 🥇
00:18:07 USA vs Canada...It’s Personal
00:21:32 Olympic Love Story 💍
00:29:08 “Let It Ride.”
00:34:08 The Lucky Underwear Confession 😳
00:35:28 Abby’s 100-Step Pregame Ritual
00:43:07 “Routine or Mental Trap?”

“Do superstitions even work?”

“Yes.”

Slap. Slap. Slap.

This week on Welcome to the Party, Julie Foudy kicks things off solo (with cardboard cutouts of Abby Wambach and Billie Jean King in Milan, obviously) before diving into a women’s sports roundup from Mikaela Shiffrin making history to the U.S. women’s hockey team chasing gold, plus a fresh-look USWNT roster under Emma Hayes.

Then Abby joins and it devolves beautifully: 100-step pregame routines, water bottle flips, same game underwear for four years, and the infamous three self-slaps before kickoff. Are superstitions secret weapons or mental traps? Either way…we’re letting it ride.

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Keep the Party Going:
USWNT SheBelieves Cup Roster:
ussoccer.com/stories/2025/10/hayes-names-26-player-uswnt-training-camp-roster-october-matches-against-portugal-new-zealand
Savy King’s incredible story:
youtu.be/5XWP6HTvdug
Savy King’s nonprofit, Savy King of Hearts: savykingofhearts.org/about

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