.I don't observe sports much (though they are actually always playing in my house thanks to my other half), however every four years when the Olympics spin around, it's go time. I view virtually everything that performs, and I build quick fandom for individuals and also staffs based on fully approximate traits that I observe on the television, speak with the commentator, or find while carrying out a wiki dive. Women's water polo is my brand-new obsession, after finding the United States play Spain a handful of nights earlier. Spain won 13-11, but in the end of the game the American goalkeeper Ashleigh Johnson racked up a goal, throwing the reception with such pressure that it was almost weapon-like. "Wow," I believed, "she seems to be so cool." Final night I acquired home and observed there was yet another water shirt game, this time around the US against Italy. The United States staff was performing a lot far better (they inevitably won 10-3), as well as it wasn't for Italy's shortage of making an effort. Johnson, I quickly noticed, is actually one hell of a goalkeeper. (Eventually, in my wiki dive, I know that she is taken into consideration some of the best goalkeepers on earth these are her 3rd Olympic games and the crew won gold in 2016 as well as 2020.) Now, I am none of those folks that views sporting activities as well as presumes, "I could perform that." I can possibly do a great deal of things, but I am actually the least athletic person about, one thing that I have actually known in my bones considering that I was actually virtually in elementary school. Still, there is such a pull when you're viewing somebody be totally excellent at what they perform-- it's probably why I am going to watch any sort of sports film on Netflix-- and also as I saw all these females swimming along with pressure, absolutely pulverizing one another now and then trying to obtain the ball, in a manner that was definitely beautiful, it struck me: I can not participate in water polo, however supposing I wore a little bit of water polo hat?Amy Lawrance, resort 2025.Photo: Wendell Teodoro/Getty Images.