Olympic gold medalists Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe were together for nearly a decade.
The pair met while backstage at a photo shoot for the 2016 Rio Olympics. “She was in her basketball uniform and she had her hair down,” Rapinoe told NBC in 2021.
“We kinda crossed [paths] and she was like, ‘Oh, hey! Ready for your game?'” Bird added. “I was like, haha … funny.”
The soccer star revealed that she kicked herself at the time for making “such a bad impression.”
“So dorky,” Bird teased. “I walked away like, ‘I thought you were supposed to be cool?’ We joke about it now ’cause she was a total dork.”...
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