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.