Yep, Rapinoe is one half of a sports power couple. She met basketball star Sue Bird at a sponsor event at the 2016 Olympics, and they started dating that September. Bird, now retired, used to play for the WNBA's Seattle Storm. Between them, the couple have a ton of hardware: Bird has five Olympic gold medals and four WNBA titles under her belt, while Rapinoe has her own Olympic gold and bronze, plus two World Cup titles.
They were also the first gay couple to appear in ESPN Magazine's Body Issue, and Rapinoe helped Bird see the importance of publicly talking about her sexuality. "Megan and I would have conversations about it, and she opened my eyes to another way of looking at it, which is that in today's time, in today's society, it's still important to kind of say it to make it the norm," Bird told The Seattle Times in 2018.
The couple got engaged in October 2020 but have yet to set a wedding date. See a full timeline of Rapinoe and Bird's relationship here.
