#2020 Olympics

[sunshine-theseus]

Slow | Chloe Logarzo x Reader

Words: 1.9k Summary: despite a rough relationship with your parents, your closeness to your sister brings you Chloe, the only girl for you. Warning: NOT PROOF READ I have no clue if this is any good and I’m so sorry I think it might be one of my worst ones😭, I know the WBBL started in 2015 but who fucking cares, I changed it – no COVID but Olympics still postponed for some unknown reason :D Requested by - @charligrantismygirlfriend - not happy with this one at all i'm genuinely so sorry

Sport wasn’t something I was unfamiliar with. In fact, it was my favourite thing. As a kid, my mum and dad put me through many different clubs for different sports, from tennis to AFL. We always landed back at the same lush green cricket pitch in the western suburbs of Sydney on a Saturday morning, surrounded by other girls of all ages who shared my passion.

On Sundays my younger sister would play her soccer games, so we’d spend the weekend in a hotel in the city, then go to each other’s games, pretending to do our homework as we watch.

Not long into Ellie’s soccer journey, our parents decided the move from Cowra to Sydney was necessary for her to develop. The hours long trips to and from training in the depths of Sydney every afternoon proving to be more difficult as she progressed in school.

I no longer lived with them when they made the move, but I resented Ellie for a while. I’d been playing cricket before she could walk, albeit poorly as a 6-year-old, and had moved up through the stages into the best group in the academy by the age of 14. My parents insisted nothing much would come of it, so there was no reason to make such a drastic move and leave the farm and small-town life behind.

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I started playing professionally for Sydney in the Twenty20 Cup at 17, the same year I got my first call-up for the women’s national cricket team. We, or they, still didn’t live in Sydney, so I dropped out of high school my senior year, and lived with one of the older girls who was also on the national team. I made my national debut a couple months after in a test match against England. My parents didn’t come, Ellie had some important game on that was simply impossible to miss.

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At 15, when they finally joined me in the city, Ellie joined her first W-league team, and had her first senior team call-up. I made sure to be there for both debuts, avoiding my parents who sat in the crowd nearby. I cried the moment she first touched the pitch in a Matilda’s jersey, and rushed down from the stands to pick her up and hug her when the match was over.

That’s when I first met her… Chloe. My age, a beautiful brunette in the midfield who celebrated with my sister after their 9-0 win against Vietnam. We introduced ourselves and exchanged numbers but nothing much came of it. I can’t deny the many nights I spent awake dreaming of the girl.

The next time I saw Chloe in person was a Sydney Derby. Naturally I’d come to support my sister, but I couldn’t help but cheer whenever the older girl got a touch on the ball. I met up with her and Ellie again after the game, shouting them both dinner. That’s when Chloe asked me out on our first date.

It was somewhat rushed. Her departure for Newcastle was pending and it limited our options, leaving us to grab some shitty take away and dance around in a field down the road from where I lived. The sun was bright, but her smile was brighter. I stumble on my own feet whenever she looked at me, her beauty beyond compare. The beginning of a sunburn kissing my cheeks only provided me so much of an excuse as to why I was so red.

“I’m going to come to every single one of your games.” She whispers in my ear as we lay on the picnic blanket, beneath the over looming gum tree, me playing with her hair as she rests a hand beneath my loose linen shirt.

“You have your own training. And you can’t drive 2+ hours back and forth once a week. Also we have away games you can’t possibly make...” Despite my desperate want for her to be there every game, I begin to list all the reasons it wasn’t logical.

“I’ll find a way. And if not all, most home games.” She gives me a satisfied smile, one that tells me she knows she’s won whatever little argument we had.

-

Chloe keeps her promise, and I join her in my own. We both attend each other’s home games as often as possible, and very rarely, we managed to catch an away game. It usually happened when we were both playing a game in the same city, but we took whatever we were given.

Things went down hill when she moved to Sweden.

She hadn’t been the one to tell me. Ellie was spending a week with me after returning from the Olympics, which I had managed to attend most of, and asked me how I felt about the move. Chloe and I had been dating for a year, so the shock that she hadn’t told me was bigger than the shock at the news.

“What do you mean? She would tell me if she was moving to Sweden.” The pity in my little sister’s eyes is enough to break me. She pats and rubs my back as I sob into her shoulder. My whole body shakes as I moan and weep, and by the time I stop my eyes burn and there isn’t a dry spot on her shirt.

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“So this is it? You’re breaking up with me because I’m moving?” Chloe looks at me like I’ve got 2 heads as I stand on her front step.

“No, I’m breaking up with you because I had to find out from my little sister, by accident, that you’re moving. Were you ever going to tell me? Or was I just going to have to find out when The Jets removed your name from the squad list?”

“I’m going to come back for the A-League season anyway! It’s not like I’m never coming back, I’ll barely be gone 8 months. And I was going to tell you!”

“When? Once your plane touched down in Stockholm or wherever you’re going? In 5 months when I called you so you can explain why you didn’t come to my game? When were you going to tell me Chlo?” I’m met with silence.

“That’s what I thought.” I turn and walk away, never expecting to see her again.

I can hear her shouting something at me as I continue to walk down the road, droplets of rain beginning to fall on the pavement in front of me. Nothing really registers until I’m standing in front of my sister’s apartment door, clothes heavy with rain and a face void of any other emotion except heartbreak.

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I don’t see Chloe for years to come following the tragic end of our relationship. Despite her coming back during the summer to play for Sydney, I had no reason to watch her games, Ellie having moved to Portland to develop her career.

Then Ellie moved to Lyon, and I decided to move with her, putting a pause to my cricketing career. Further away from Chloe and closer to Ellie seemed like the perfect deal.

So I helped Ellie move and meet her new teammates. Every morning I’d make her breakfast and then walk around the city, usually finding myself in a café or museum and writing a book. Something I never planned on doing anything with, but found a solace in.

That’s how I found myself in the same café I go to every Saturday, typing in the same document I have been typing in for 5 months. Desperately pressing the backspace as I sip the now cold coffee, I don’t notice someone sliding into the seat across from me.

“Fancy seeing you here.” I’m surprised I didn’t get whiplash at the speed in which my head snapped up to look at the girl across from me.

She looks different. Not really, just… older. And her hair is bleached, skin just a fraction more tan, eyes still that shimmering blue. Still beautiful

“Chloe- what the fuck are you doing here?” the words nearly get caught in my throat as I try to process what’s going on.

“Well, I’m playing for Bristol now, in case you didn’t know. Only spent 2 seasons in Sweden then went back to Sydney, went on loan to Washington for a season, back to Sydney, now I’m in England. We have a small break so I thought I’d come see Ellie. Planned everything around you, knew you wouldn’t want to see me. I didn’t take into account you might still like coffee as much as you used to.”

“How’d you even know I’m with Ellie?” it’s a dumb question but I ask it none the less.

“You think I stopped tracking your career because we broke up? I have to say, when I read the “renowned cricketer Y/N Carpenter taking a break for an unforeseen amount of time to help her little sister, Matildas star Ellie Carpenter, settle into the big leagues at Olympique Lyonnais.” headlines, I was shocked.” I finally managed to meet her eyes, the crow’s feet that crack at the corners making her ever the more pretty. It’s aggravating.

“Thought it’d help me get away from Sydney.”

“Sydney? Or me?” I almost want to grab her by the shoulders and scream at her how much I miss her, but I stay sat and silent. A satisfied hum escapes her lips and a smile graces her face.

“I miss you.” She says what I’m thinking, and I begin to think how much of a coward I am. It was so easy for her, why am I struggling?

She doesn’t let me reply, getting up and walking out. I get up to follow her but she’s vanished in the crowd, so I sit, letting my coffee grow colder, thinking about her.

~~~~~

“Ellie this is a bad idea.”

“Common. Meeks is bringing Harley and Kirstey. You love Harley. You can babysit!” my little sister is determined, although my fighting is useless as we drag our suitcases through the airport.

“Chloe is going to be there El.”

“Chloe is going to be here.” I nearly bump into her as she stops in front of us.

“And she’ll be your plane buddy.” The cheeky grin I was once so familiar with graces her face and I can feel the corner of my own lips twitching as my heart clenches. Fuck.

“Oh goody.” I try to ignore the sweat that begins to prick through my skin as Ellie stalks away from us to meet Emily Gielnik.

-

“Real talk.” Chloe’s face is serious as soon as we take our seats on the plane.

“I miss you, and I want to try this again. I get you may not want to but you can’t tell me you don’t still feel even the tiniest bit of love for me still.” Her finger waggles back and forth between as to indicate exactly what she’s talking about and I sigh.

“I miss you too…” I meet her eyes and I can see the hope that grows behind them.

“But if we try this out again, we have to take it slow. Like go out on a few dates to start with.”

“I can do that.” She eagerly nods her head in agreement.

“I’d really like that.” I smile back at her, and that seems to end the conversation.

As the engine rumbles and we begin moving along the tarmac, I rest my arm on the armrest. I gently slide my hand into Chloe’s and rest my head on her shoulder, closing my eyes. Maybe slow wasn’t necessary, I love her too much.

#woso x reader #woso #womens soccer #woso fanfics #wsl #olympique lyonnais #the matildas #chloe logarzo #chloe logarzo x reader #the matildas x reader #2020 olympics #olympics 2020

[98percentofthewnbaisgay]

do you have the iconic video of team usa lit af after winning gold in 2021 😭 The one Dee is twerking in lmfao

why yes!

best video ever 🥰

#womens basketball #wnba #breanna stewart #a’ja wilson #diana taurasi #sue bird #tina charles #chelsea gray #sylvia fowles #skylar diggins smith #jewell loyd #brittney griner #napheesa collier #ariel atkins #wnba blog #usabwnt #usa basketball #tokyo 2020 #2020 Olympics

[czarinakanaeva]

gifs of every rhythmic gymnast at the 2020 olympics

Ukraine - 7th Place

Mariola Bodnarchuk

Daryna Duda

Yeva Meleshchuk

Anastasiya Voznyak

Mariia Vysochanska

#Ukrainian Group #Rhythmic Gymnastics #tokyo 2020 #2020 olympics #gymedit #RG #Mariola Bodnarchuk #Daryna Duda #Yeva Meleshchuk #Anastasiya Voznyak #Mariia Vysochanska #Ukraine #My Edits #My GIFs #mine: tokyo gifs

[incorrectnwsl]

Hello all of my soccer stars (I’m workshopping some names to call you guys). Since one of my most popular quizzes on Sporcle is the 2020 USWNT Roster Quiz, I decided to make one for 2021. And I will probably do the same for 2022, and maybe earlier years if there is interest.

So, without further blabbering, I give you the link to my soccer quizzes:

https://www.sporcle.com/playlists/valazzaj/soccer-playlist

Of which, the newest is the 2021 Roster Quiz. How well can you remember 2 years ago, because the answer may surprise you (it surprised me how much I forgot).

#USWNT #WWC #WOSO #2020 Olympics #Tokyo Olympics

[sam-kristie]

August 5, 2021:

Kristie comforts Sam on the field after the 2020 Olympic bronze medal match that Australia lost to the United States.

#sam kerr #kristie mewis #kerrmew #k+s masterpost #2021 #august 2021 #match pictures #japan #2020 olympics

[theusviral]

Boxer Harry Garside is fighting the norm, showing younger generations to never back down

Boxer Harry Garside is fighting the norm, showing younger generations to never back down

Harry Garside has had plenty of time to sit and ponder life outside of the boxing ring after suffering a nightmare injury to his hand. The supremely talented Aussie boxer has faced the longest delay in his booming career, spending months unable to even throw a punch. Having grown up in the working class town of Lilydale, Victoria, Garside picked up the gloves at nine years old and from that…

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#2020 olympics #australia #Boxing #Fashion & Beauty #Lifestyle #martial arts

[mjordan-nba-nhl]

DAMIAN LILLARD | Team USA, 2020 Summer Olympics, Tokyo, Japan, 2020/21.

#damian lillard #team usa #usa #basketball #usa basketball #basketball player #champion #american #point guard #2020 olympics #2020s #20s #20s team usa #20s basketball #20s sports #sports #future legend

[sonichedgeblog]

Silver Smash 'Mario & Sonic at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics' Support us on Patreon

#Mario & Sonic at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics #Nintendo #Nintendo Switch #Switch #SEGA #Sonic #Sonic The Hedgehog

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Toyota APM 2020/2023. Some of the Accessible People Movers that were originally designed for the (delayed) 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have been repurposed and transformed into cat buses for the Expo Aichi Memorial Park in the Japanese city of Nagakute. The cat buses have been designed to resemble the cat character from the 1988 Studio Ghibli animated film My Neighbour Tortoro. The APM is fully electric with a range of 100km and a top speed of 20km/h (12 mph). There were around 200 APMs made for the Olympics, it’s unclear how many have been turned into cats

#Toyota #Toyota APM #Toyota Accessible People Mover #people mover #2020 Tokyo Olympics #cat bus #low speed #EV #electric vehicle #2023 #Expo Aichi Memorial Park #my neighbour totoro #cats

[psychictimestone]

Mario and Sonic at the olympic games (especially 2014 onwards) sure does give us some peak smiley Silver content.

#silver the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #Mario and Sonic at the Olympic games #look at him. Look at him and his cute lil smile #boy is just so happy in the olympic games and its a vibe #the overwhelming urge to draw olympic games silver and his slick trainers.... #if you're ever having a bad day go on youtube and look up Silver doing rhythmic gym from the 2016 games. You wont be disappointed #whoever was in charge of giving the guys outfits in tokyo 2020 deserves a raise because it makes the game 120% cuter

[98percentofthewnbaisgay]

Flashback Friday:

Breanna Stewart wins her second Olympic gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics!

#womens basketball #wnba #breanna stewart #wnba blog #usabwnt #usa basketball #2020 Olympics #tokyo 2020 #tokyo olympics

[czarinakanaeva]

gifs of every rhythmic gymnast at the 2020 olympics

Bulgaria - 1st Place

Simona Dyankova

Stefani Kiryakova

Madlen Radukanova

Laura Traets

Erika Zafirova

#Bulgarian Group #Rhythmic Gymnastics #tokyo 2020 #2020 olympics #gymedit #RG #Simona Dyankova #Stefani Kiryakova #Madlen Radukanova #Laura Traets #Erika Zafirova #Bulgaria #My Edits #My GIFs #mine: tokyo gifs

[bidisastersanji]

Was thinking about how the Olympic village is basically an orgy of strongest people from all over the world so let’s think of Olympic athletes Zoro and Sanji meet at the Olympic Games:

Zoro as a Japanese martial artist (karate? Judo? Taekwondo?) kind of athlete since Kendo is not an Olympic sport and fencing wouldn’t feel right for this man. He can have Law and Kiku as buddies from Japan on his team

Sanji as a French gymnast , coached by his adoptive father Zeff

Sanji spots Japan’s sexy flagbearer (a bit oiled up or shirtless maybe 😏?) during the opening ceremony and is very flustered. He doesn’t know Zoro notices him too- not just from then but because Sanji was in a promo video for Paris 2024, doing some hypnotizing gymnastics and looking gorgeous, sweaty and laughing on camera , and Zoro definitely didn’t pause and stare at his definition a couple dozen times, no sirree.

(Alternate idea: the flame needs to be passed on from Japan to France (Tokyo to Paris) What if they fight and extinguish it by accident and dislike each other at the start?)

They run into each other constantly at the Olympic village- staying in nearby rooms, at the cafeteria, at parties, etc, their friend groups accidentally mingling and bringing them together over the course of the games

The sexual tension is PALPABLE AS FUCK Sanji can’t stop staring at this infuriatingly sexy and usually composed man with an impressively large chest and arms while Zoro can’t stop thinking about getting between those corded muscles on those juicy thighs and die happy there

Zoro definitely attends Sanji’s events and gets so hot and bothered

Nami (team France, Friends with Sanji) notices Zoro staring at his ass of course and tries to get them to get it out of their system, bringing Sanji to a team Japan event or completion where Zoro is likely to attend- everyone runs with the urban myth that athletes at the Olympics perform better when having sex anyways right?

At a party, drunk after a win, Zoro and Sanji try to reason with themselves that that’s the reason they’re doing this, nothing more, as they fall into each others (cardboard?) beds again and again, seeking each other out (if they’re cardboard like for Tokyo 2020 they MUST break one)

There can be some second language English miscommunication, as a treat

Despite their emotional constipation Sanji can’t stop himself from being himself though and shows his sweet side, showing Zoro around and sharing French culture with him, and Zoro is enamoured as fuck, and Sanji tells him he’s always dreamt of coming to Japan, if not at least for the food-then for the culture (Fun fact Japan and France have a long long history of romanticizing the fuck out of each other so it’s so perfect)

Sanji originally plans to bring just Zoro on a romantic outing in Paris but ends up bringing the whole ragtag group they accidentally formed - Robin insists they need to visit the catacombs (lol) Chopper wants to eat Berthillon Ice cream, Usopp wants to visit the botanical gardens, etc robin wins and Chopper and Usopp are terrified the whole time because these are real human bones lol

Bonus stuff: Usopp is in sharpshooting or archery, Luffy is in trampoline, Chopper is in equestrian, Nami is in sailing, Robin is in table tennis (or is a coach?), Franky does Paralympic Greco-Roman wrestling, Brook does fencing, Jinbei does surfing

#Zosan Olympian Au #Olympics au #zosan #Zoro x sanji #sanji x Zoro #zosan Olympics au #cw: bones #they would have the most energetic sex ever lol #I can’t get over the sturdy cardboard beds from Tokyo 2020 #I Hope they break one #Zosan fic idea

[rayactive-factory]

#sth #sonic fanart #sketchbook #mario and sonic at the olympic games #tokyo 2020 #jet the hawk #tony hawk #the text is from a custom mug print etsy listing i randomly found on google #so i decided that obviously jet would get one #only it's like a custom cola print #only it's chaos cola #it's complicated #idk if the liquid looks like gatorade but an attempt was made

[elenitrack]

Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova 🇧🇾

Tokyo 2020 Olympics

#nastassia mironchyk-ivanova #team belarus #female athletes #girls abs #fitness #athletic girls #long jump #athletics #track and field #tokyo 2020 #olympics

[beatrack92]

Dafne Schippers 🇳🇱

Tokyo 2020 Olympics

#dafne schippers #team netherlands #female athletes #athletic girls #sexy #butt #fitness #fit girls #athletics #track and field #tokyo 2020 #olympics