Sarah Mulkerrins

Canada eventually kind of came back, levelled it up, went to overtime.

And then Jack Hughes just found the back of the tiny nets.

Yeah.

to win it for the USA.

And it goes in and then suddenly everybody's celebrating.

It's such an amazing kind of moment in that.

And, you know, just it's such a big moment as well for kind of American ice hockey because I spoke to a couple of the players afterwards pre what we will then talk about.

And all of them have grown up with watching the films of Miracle on Ice and knowing that nobody had done it since and that kind of weight of history and what it means and for them to be able to kind of get across the line and do it.

You know, they...

I spoke to Conor Helibook and he was just like, I've imagined this, but this is nowhere near like what I had imagined.

Yeah, but when you're there in person is seeing the puck, do you really adjust to it and get into the... You start to, but it is still difficult because you're seeing more the base of the hockey stick and the movement of that more than you see the puck.

And probably the only time you really see the puck is when you see the goalkeeper or goaltender saving it or when it goes into the back of the net because it's so kind of controlled by the length, obviously, of the...

So you're watching the stick and the player more than you are the ball.

Yeah, and I think, you know, as part of it, so the guy, Jack Hughes, who basically scored the overtime goal, his mum, so Jack Hughes and his brother Quinn play on the men's team.

His mother, Ellen, was a development coach with the women's team.

They were there, watched them and the work that she did in terms of getting them, you know, the gold medal.

They also had an overtime kind of winner with them.

Megan Keller and you know their mother is also a former national team player with the USA so you know there's been an awful lot of kind of talk since and it was interesting because I was kind of noting before I had deleted my ex account because I'm not across this full time you know it's you come in at a big event and you're covering this and I could see then after the event when we're kind of heading home how this was playing out across social media in different kind of ways in terms of

actually where that men's team are potentially politically within the US and how that feeds into kind of the wider discussions you would have there, whether some may be kind of Trump supporters, Republican supporters, but then also kind of the fact that the men's and women's team had been training quite closely together, you know, kind of all kind of part of it, you know, had been kind of celebrating together.

Yes, yeah.