Megan Rapinoe Goes Full Soccer Mom as USWNT Wins at 2024 Olympics

Megan Rapinoe went full soccer mother on the sidelines of Group USA’s gold medal-winning soccer match in opposition to Brazil on the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Images taken on the match captured Rapinoe, 39, cheering on the US girls’s soccer workforce from the stands, alongside her fellow USWNT alums Tobin Heath and Ali Krieger, on the Parc des Princes on Saturday, August 10. Sporting her signature pink pixie haircut and matching sizzling pink sun shades, Rapinoe snapped pictures each on her telephone and on a disposable digicam from the stands of the ultimate soccer match between the 2 girls’s groups.

Group USA had followers watching their victory at dwelling, as Olympian Abby Wambach watched them rating the successful purpose per footage shared by Glennon Doyle through X because the US girls’s soccer workforce secured their victory over Brazil, 1-0. This marked the USWNT’s first Olympic gold medal since 2012 when Wambach and Rapinoe have been on Group USA.

Rapinoe has competed with Group USA in three Olympic Games, taking dwelling the gold medal for her first Olympics in London in 2012. She returned to Rio 4 years later, the place Group USA positioned fifth in girls’s soccer, although they secured the bronze in Tokyo’s 2020 Video games, which was Rapinoe’s ultimate Olympics as a competitor.

In July final yr, the soccer legend announced her retirement from enjoying professionally following the tip of the 2023 NWSL season, which concluded with the FIFA Girls’s World Cup.

Rapinoe spoke to People on Thursday, August 8, about attending the Olympics as a spectator slightly than an athlete. “I’m residing my greatest life,” Rapinoe, joined by associate (and WNBA legend) Sue Hen, instructed the outlet. “No life has ever been lived higher on this brief span. I’m simply strolling round through the day and taking within the Parisian sights after which going to all these superb occasions.”

She continued, “It’s clearly enjoyable if I’m competing and successful and doing all of the issues, however that is an unimaginable expertise and Paris is simply probably the greatest cities on this planet for a purpose so I’m actually having fun with simply taking all of it in.”

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Hen, who has competed in 5 Olympic Video games herself for basketball, added, “It’s nice. You actually do get to see a lot extra.” She famous that Olympic athletes are “completely depending on the schedule, the follow schedule, [the] sport schedule,” so usually don’t get to do any sightseeing.

Main as much as the finals, Rapinoe shared that the “most particular factor” she witnessed was Trinity Rodman’s additional time purpose that despatched the U.S. girls’s workforce to the semifinals. “I used to be going nuts,” she gushed. “Me and Mia [Hamm] have been sitting subsequent to one another, and we have been within the FIFA part, I don’t even know should you’re speculated to cheer. You’re speculated to be acceptable in there and we’re like, ‘We’re by no means getting invited again to this part, however let’s go.’”