Guess Who Narrowly Missed Making On the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team?
The answer is Actress Geena Davis-!!!
Read the People magazine article, “Geena Davis Explains Why She Took Up Archery — and How She Almost Made the 2000 Olympic Team.”
Then, watch the video “Geena Davis - Archery League Of Her Own.”
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I learned about Geena’s archery performance from Ana Umer, a well-known international archer from Slovenia. Click her World Archery biography.
How did I meet her???
On October 11, 2018, I traveled from Budapest, Hungary, to Belluno, Italy, during the first of my two Airbnb-hopping trips (September 2018 to January 2019).
After I entered the Venice Mestre railway station, I learned that the next rail to Belluno would be due in two hours. I went to McDonald's to see if it offered free WiFi. Hooray—McDonald's WiFi could work if you put your FB profile in it.
When I needed to go to the restroom, I asked that woman sitting at the next table if she would look at my two bags. She agreed. After I returned, I told her I had found two plugs in the other dining room. Shortly, she came to the plug to charge her smartphone.
Then she asked me to look at her bags. I accepted.
After she returned, she asked me where I came from. I used Google Maps and explained that Rehoboth Beach is close to Washington, DC. She took my laptop and showed me where she drove over the West Coast in 2016.
She looked at me and typed "Ana Umer" on Google Search. Her name has hundreds of hits. Then she clicked "Images." See her pictures at http://bit.ly/2yxOnaZ.
I took my laptop back and showed her my tennis achievements.
She said that Jennifer Lawrence of "The Hunger Games" is good at archery.
After departing separately, we have continued to be Facebook friends.
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I planned to see Ana in Ljubljana for my second Airbnb-hopping trip (September 2019 to February 2022). However, the COVID-19 pandemic caused European Union nations to close their borders to Americans. (Croatia was not an EU nation at that time.) Too bad for me.