.I do not observe sports a lot (though they are actually consistently playing in my house because of my partner), but every four years when the Olympics roll around, it is actually go time. I see just about everything that performs, as well as I establish immediate fandom for people and teams based upon completely arbitrary things that I observe on the TV, learn through the analyst, or find out while carrying out a wiki dive. Women’s water polo is my new fixation, after observing the U.S.A.
play Spain a handful of evenings back. Spain won 13-11, however at the end of the activity the American goalie Ashleigh Johnson scored a goal, throwing the ball with such force that it was actually practically weapon-like. “Wow,” I presumed, “she seems thus trendy.” Last evening I acquired home and also observed there was actually yet another water shirt video game, this time the United States versus Italy.
The American team was actually performing a whole lot far better (they inevitably won 10-3), and also it wasn’t for Italy’s shortage of trying. Johnson, I rapidly observed, is actually one heck of a goalie. (Later on, in my wiki plunge, I discover that she is actually taken into consideration among the most ideal goalkeepers around the world these are her 3rd Olympic video games and the staff succeeded gold in 2016 and 2020.) Right now, I am not one of those folks that enjoys sports and believes, “I can carry out that.” I can do a ton of factors, yet I am the least sports individual all around, something that I have actually recognized in my bones given that I was actually essentially in primary school.
Still, there is such a pull when you’re checking out somebody be absolutely excellent at what they perform– it is actually perhaps why I will certainly check out any sports film on Netflix– and as I saw all these women diving with power, definitely shattering one another on occasion attempting to obtain the ball, in such a way that was actually genuinely wonderful, it attacked me: I can not play water polo, however suppose I put on a little bit of water shirt hat?Amy Lawrance, retreat 2025.Photo: Wendell Teodoro/Getty Images.