Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe’s Relationship Timeline: From an Awkward 1st Meeting to a Romantic Engagement

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Talk about a power couple! Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, both Olympic gold medalists, started dating in 2017.The pair first met while backstage at a photo shoot for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

In 2021, they gave NBC the details of their first encounter. “She was in her basketball uniform and she had her hair down,” Rapinoe said.“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.”Rapinoe came out as gay publicly in 2012.

In 2020, she told The Sunday Magazine that coming out made her “a better, more full person.” The Olympian added, “I think that any time you hide even the smallest part of yourself, you’re not able to fully capture your potential just in life in general.