{"id":735104,"date":"2026-04-17T20:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/735104\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:03:19","slug":"sue-bird-and-megan-rapinoe-announce-theyre-splitting-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/735104\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe announce they&#8217;re splitting up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>L-R: Sarah Tapscott, Meryl Wilsner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olympic gold medalists Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe have called it quits after a decade together, announcing their separation in a joint Instagram post on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere really is no smooth or easy way to share this news,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXPmJgAj_6t\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their statement read<\/a>. \u201cAfter a lot of thought, we\u2019ve made the decision to separate as a couple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis hasn\u2019t been an easy decision, but its one we\u2019ve made together with so much love, respect, and care for each other. We\u2019ve shared a whole life over the last decade, through big moments and in quiet ones, and that is something we\u2019ll always carry with us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39119896\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sue-Megan.jpg\" alt=\"Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird attend the 2025 New York #LWTSUMMIT at The Rooftop at Pier 17 on October 7, 2025 in New York City.  \" class=\"wp-image-39119896\"  \/>Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird attend the 2025 New York #LWTSUMMIT at The Rooftop at Pier 17 on October 7, 2025 in New York City.   Getty Images for TechFutures<\/p>\n<p>They also shared that their podcast, \u201cA Touch More\u201d will be ending. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so grateful to this incredible community that has held us up, welcomed us in, and supported us exactly how we are,\u201d they continued. \u201cSo many of you have reminded us, again and again, why loving out loud matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting to create A Touch More: The Podcast and build a network around it has been a tremendous joy. The conversations, the laughter, the connection \u2013 it means more than we can put into words. While this chapter of doing the podcast together is ending, what we\u2019ve built with you isn\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for being with us though all of it\u2026 it means the world to us. With so much love, Megan and Sue.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The pair, who met at the 2016 Rio Olympics \u2014 while Rapinoe played for the Seattle Reign of the NWSL and Bird played for the WNBA\u2019s Seattle Storm \u2014 went public with their relationship in July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>They announced their engagement in October 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Bird and Rapinoe originally launched their podcast on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>They are executive producers on \u201cPlaying the Field,\u201d a forthcoming series based on the USA Today sports romance novel \u201cCleat Cute\u201d by Meryl Wilsner, as <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/playing-the-field-tv-series-amazon-mgm-development-1236859016\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported by Deadline <\/a>on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Playing the Field\u201d is described as \u201can ensemble comedy following the sexy, messy, and exciting lives of four female players on Crescent City, a professional New Orleans women\u2019s soccer team, anchored by the will-they-won\u2019t-they romance of newly drafted phenom Phoebe Matthews and team captain Grace Henderson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bird will join NBC and Peacock as a studio analyst for the 2026 WNBA season. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L-R: Sarah Tapscott, Meryl Wilsner Olympic gold medalists Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe have called it quits after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":735105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[93963,62,1486,89707,67,132,68,2391,232],"class_list":["post-735104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-megan-rapinoe","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sue-bird","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wags","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116421840678948138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}