.I don't adhere to sports a lot (though they are regularly playing in my house thanks to my husband), yet every four years when the Olympics roll all around, it's go opportunity. I check out virtually everything that is on, and also I cultivate quick fandom for people and also staffs based upon completely random traits that I see on the television, talk to the analyst, or uncover while performing a wiki dive. Female's water polo is my brand new fixation, after observing the USA play Spain a few evenings earlier. Spain succeeded 13-11, however at the end of the game the American goalie Ashleigh Johnson racked up an objective, throwing the ball with such power that it was just about weapon-like. "Wow," I presumed, "she appears thus cool." Final evening I got home and viewed there was yet another water shirt game, this time around the US against Italy. The American group was actually performing a great deal better (they at some point gained 10-3), and it wasn't for Italy's shortage of trying. Johnson, I quickly noticed, is actually one hell of a goalie. (Later, in my wiki plunge, I learn that she is taken into consideration some of the most ideal goalkeepers worldwide these are her third Olympic games and also the team won gold in 2016 and also 2020.) Right now, I am none of those individuals that sees sporting activities as well as thinks, "I might perform that." I can do a ton of things, yet I am actually the minimum sports individual around, one thing that I have actually understood in my bone tissues because I was actually in grade school. Still, there is actually such a pull when you are actually checking out a person be actually absolutely fantastic at what they carry out-- it is actually perhaps why I will certainly check out any type of sports film on Netflix-- and as I saw all these girls going for a swim along with pressure, completely smashing one another once in a while making an effort to obtain the ball, in such a way that was really wonderful, it hit me: I can not participate in water shirt, but supposing I wore a little bit of water shirt hat?Amy Lawrance, retreat 2025.Photograph: Wendell Teodoro/Getty Images.