.I don't follow sports much (though they are regularly playing in my residence thanks to my other half), but every 4 years when the Olympics spin about, it's go opportunity. I enjoy nearly everything that is on, as well as I develop quick fandom for individuals and crews based upon totally arbitrary traits that I view on the television, learn through the analyst, or even find out while performing a wiki dive. Female's water polo is my brand-new obsession, after observing the U.S.A. play Spain a couple of evenings ago. Spain won 13-11, but by the end of the game the American goalkeeper Ashleigh Johnson racked up a goal, tossing the ball along with such power that it was actually almost weapon-like. "Wow," I believed, "she seems thus trendy." Last night I acquired home and observed there was yet another water polo activity, this time around the United States against Italy. The American team was actually carrying out a lot far better (they at some point succeeded 10-3), and it had not been for Italy's absence of trying. Johnson, I promptly noticed, is actually one hell of a goalkeeper. (Eventually, in my wiki plunge, I discover that she is considered one of the very best goalkeepers in the world these are her third Olympic video games and also the crew succeeded gold in 2016 as well as 2020.) Now, I am actually none of those individuals that sees sporting activities as well as assumes, "I could perform that." I may do a bunch of things, however I am the minimum athletic person about, something that I have actually understood in my bones given that I was virtually in primary school. Still, there is such a pull when you are actually viewing somebody be actually totally wonderful at what they do-- it's perhaps why I will certainly see any kind of sports film on Netflix-- and also as I found all these ladies diving along with pressure, positively pounding each other occasionally trying to obtain the ball, in a manner that was actually definitely gorgeous, it attacked me: I can not participate in water polo, however what happens if I put on a little water shirt hat?Amy Lawrance, resort 2025.Image: Wendell Teodoro/Getty Images.