
Tyla sings the South African national anthem during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group A match between Mexico and South Africa at Mexico City Stadium on June 11, 2026 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Hannah Peters – FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images
When Trinity Rodman thundered in that stoppage-time winner for the Washington Spirit against the Portland Thorns in the NWSL on Aug. 3, it was a comeback goal celebrated throughout the 16,000-strong crowd at Audi Field. A small corner of Wimbledon, south London, also rejoiced in that moment.
The U.S. women’s national team forward made a successful return to football after a four-month absence due to a back injury she says might never fully heal. After her volley earned the Spirit a 2-1 victory, the 23-year-old was overcome with emotion, having thought she might not get to experience that feeling again.
“That was just the hardest thing I’ve had to go through, injury and everything,” Rodman told ESPN. “Being back, and being at the home stadium with the crowd behind me, scoring a goal like that — you saw I buried that. I wasn’t going to miss it.”
Thousands of miles away at Goals Wimbledon, a soccer centre that rents out five-a-side pitches for personal use, they feel like a small but proud part of Rodman’s comeback trail.
At the end of June, Rodman, an Olympic champion in France last summer, was in England supporting her boyfriend, No. 6 world-ranked professional tennis player Ben Shelton, as he reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon. Fresh from being the face of Adidas’ advertising campaign for the F50 Sparkfusion women’s football boots, Rodman walked up to the Goals reception desk and asked manager Barry Horsnell if she could hire one of its (artificial turf) pitches.
Horsnell didn’t know who this person was at first, but sensed she was famous. Her American accent, along with the fact she had turned up with a coach — Josh Angulo, the Spirit’s team chiropractor, who was accompanying her in Europe — piqued his interest.
“I’m nosy, so I’ll just ask (people) questions,” Horsnell tells The Athletic. “She said she was here for the tennis, with her other half playing at Wimbledon.
“I said: ‘I really want to pretend that I know who you are, but I don’t’. She just laughed and was so nice about it.”
Rodman began training on pitch No. 11 — a seven-a-side field at the far end of the facility called Estadio Centenario, after the national stadium of Uruguay. As she ran through drills for an hour and a half, back in the office, Horsnell typed Rodman’s name into Google and was blown away by her level of stardom. Rodman rented the pitch that day for £6 (just over $8) per hour per person. It would be the last time she would have to do so.
Horsnell refused to charge them on later visits but did ask one thing in return — if fans spotted Rodman training on his pitches, which sit next to a golf driving range and a motorcycle-riding school, would she be OK with posing for photographs with them? Rodman kindly agreed, and it wasn’t long before locals spotted her being put through her paces and finding the top corner on repeat during shooting practice.
Sisters Sophie and Emily Day train at the centre. Sophie is 13 and plays as a centre-back for Brighton & Hove Albion’s academy, a 90-minute drive to the south, and Emily, 10, is in west London club Chelsea’s youth pathway.
“There are so many good female role models for girls, and so much more opportunity now as well,” their father, Richard, says, after finding out Rodman trained here. “Opportunities which just didn’t exist. And when you listen to the players that are coming towards the ends of their careers, the opportunities they’re seeing for girls that are going into the game versus what they had – but they’ve paved the way for it.”
The clientele of Goals Wimbledon are accustomed to celebrity visitors. Nigel James, father of England and Chelsea stars Lauren and Reece James, runs his youth academy from there, with plenty of appearances from his daughter and son over the years.
“There was a girl training with Nigel James Elite Coaching; she was doing a one-to-one session with a coach. I watched Trinity walk out and I thought: ‘I wonder if she’ll recognise her’,” Horsnell says. “As soon as Trinity walked out, you could just see this girl’s eyes light up. She knew straight away who Trinity was, and she couldn’t concentrate on her own football for the next 10 minutes.”
But like Horsnell on her first arrival, not everybody recognised Rodman.
Every few minutes, trains speed by behind the center’s pitches, running back and forth from the suburbs of New Malden and Raynes Park in the direction of central London’s Waterloo station or towns southwest of the city, such as Richmond.
“There were hundreds of people going past, and they wouldn’t have realised who was training on that pitch. There were people playing on the other pitches as she walked past that wouldn’t have known who she was either,” Horsnell says. “It’s mad, isn’t it?”
Rodman was in London as Shelton, 22, was defeated by eventual Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals. A month before that, she had been in Paris watching as he reached the fourth round of the French Open, where he was also defeated by the eventual champion, Carlos Alcaraz.
As Shelton won the Canadian Open just over a week ago, Rodman, now back with the Spirit and building up her minutes, watched on television as her partner won his first ATP Masters 1000 title. And before the U.S. Open, which starts in New York this week, she paid a visit to the Cincinnati Masters to watch him win his opening match against Camilo Ugo Carabelli.
Back in Wimbledon, they are still marvelling at the fact that Rodman trained there. Feeling inspired by her visit and England’s Lionesses winning a second straight European Championship in Switzerland last month, Horsnell and his colleagues are excited about watching the center’s new women’s five-a-side league go from strength to strength.
“Even though we only met her a few times over that couple of weeks, it’s mad to see her scoring that last-minute goal and feeling more emotionally connected to it than we might have otherwise been,” he says. “You’d be happy for anyone scoring a last-minute goal, but we know what it means to her and are happy we could help play a small part.”
“There was no air of arrogance, and her celebration for that goal was the same. It was so humble, she was just so happy to score it — and that is exactly how she came across. I know now how big a star she is in America and in women’s football, but each day that I met her, she was just so normal.”
Horsnell came out of it all with a Rodman-autographed football for his 11-year-old niece.
“I showed her the ball and she didn’t know who had signed it. Then I showed her the photo on my phone and she was like, ‘Oh my god! That’s Trinity Rodman!’”
Rodman will not be forgotten soon around these parts.
(Top photo: Dustin Satloff / NWSL via Getty Images)
Tyla embraced the clear heels trend while performing at the 2026 FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony in Mexico City, where she sang the South African national anthem before her home country faced Mexico in the tournament’s opening Group A match.

Tyla sings the South African national anthem during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group A match between Mexico and South Africa at Mexico City Stadium on June 11, 2026 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Hannah Peters – FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images
The “Chanel” singer performed the song while in Jeffrey Campbell‘s Booyah style, a sandal with a wedge heel featuring a cutout in it and an upper consisting of a wide transparent vinyl strap. The shoe also features a metallic ring detail around the heel which helps to further distinguish it. From Jeffrey Campbell, the Booyah style in white retails for $170, while the tan suede version is $195.
Tyla paired the shoes with a color-blocked body-con dress that was sleeveless with a knee-length hemline that flared slightly. She wore her hair in an updo with a lock falling down from the bun.

A closer look at Tyla’s shoes.
Tyla is never one to shy away from a bold or unexpected shoe choice. For the 2026 Met Gala, the singer and Pandora ambassador was outfitted in head-to-toe Valentino Garavani, including her aquamarine-hued Open Toe Révélé Pumps, which featured a dramatic front cutout. She has also favored more classic styles, like Christian Louboutin’s So Kate Pump and Miu Miu slingback pumps for red carpets and more formal settings.
When it comes to performance shoes, however, her style runs the gamut. At the 2025 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, where the “Chanel” singer both hosted and performed, she cycled through several silhouettes, from Rene Caovilla’s Cleo Satin Crystal Snake Wrap sandals to Nike Dunk Low sneakers to Gladiator-style sandals.

Tyla at the 2026 Met Gala Celebrating “Costume Art” held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026 in New York.
Gilbert Flores
Tyla’s World Cup appearance also connects to “Game Time,” her track with Future from the official FIFA World Cup 2026™ album, which she is set to perform on Friday. The project includes songs from artists including Daddy Yankee, Jelly Roll, Shakira, the Rolling Stones and more. “Being part of the official FIFA World Cup 2026™ album feels like a full circle moment — from South Africa hosting the World Cup in 2010. I’m so excited to perform at the opening ceremonies! Let’s go Bafana Bafana,” Tyla said in an official release.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off June 11 and runs through July 19, with 48 countries participating in 104 matches throughout the tournament. Tyla is also slated to appear at the U.S. opening ceremony in Los Angeles on Friday, where she joins a lineup that includes Katy Perry, Future, Anitta, Lisa and Rema before the U.S. Men’s National Team faces Paraguay in Inglewood, Calif.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX will soon have a new boss to answer to: Wall Street.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is the latest AI giant to announce plans to go public, coming after Anthropic said it confidentially filed for an IPO last week. SpaceX, which includes Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, is set to make its market debut on Friday. The three public offerings are expected to provide the closest look yet at the state of the AI market – and potentially rack up hundreds of billions of dollars in massive stock sales.
It also means their AI businesses, which are already approaching valuations in the trillion-dollar range, will be subject to more scrutiny than ever as Wall Street demands explosive growth every three months.
“Expectations that seem manageable in private markets can become relentless under the glare of public ownership,” Nigel Green, CEO of financial advisory firm deVere Group, said in an email to CNN.
Wall Street already has sky-high expectations for AI, leaving no room for anything short of blockbuster growth each quarter. For example, Broadcom, which previously struck partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic, reported jaw-dropping earnings: revenue growth of 48% for the second quarter and expected semiconductor growth of 180% compared to last year. But that wasn’t enough to impress investors; Broadcom shares were down over 13% last week, marking its worst week since September 2024.
AI chip stocks sank along with it late last week, with the Nasdaq falling for three consecutive days and the S&P 500 experiencing its worst day since October. An exchange-traded fund that tracks memory chip stocks was down 15% last week.
“People want more,” Stacy Rasgon, an analyst with Bernstein tracking the semiconductor market, told CNN last week when discussing chip stocks. “They always want more.”
Even Nvidia, the world’s most valuable public company, has faced similar scrutiny. In January 2025, the AI chipmaker lost a record $600 billion in market value in a single day, after DeepSeek, a new Chinese competitor, emerged in the market.
OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be held to a similar standard, with the state of their businesses serving as the bellwethers of AI industry growth. Wall Street will also be looking for signs that both companies have the cash to back up their massive spending on AI infrastructure.
Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have provided some signals about their growth.
But they’ve chosen to share those statistics publicly rather than out of legal responsibility.
OpenAI said it raised $122 billion in March, pushing its valuation to $852 billion. It also said that month that it’s generating $2 billion in revenue every month, a jump from the $1 billion it was previously generating every quarter.
ChatGPT also became the fastest app to reach one billion users last month, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. It took apps like Google Maps, TikTok and YouTube five to eight years to achieve that milestone, while ChatGPT reached it in about three, the firm said.
Anthropic’s valuation jumped from $380 billion in February to $965 billion in May, surpassing OpenAI, the company said in May. It also said last month that it achieved $47 billion in run-rate revenue, a metric that estimates future annual revenue based on current financial data. More businesses used Anthropic than OpenAI for the first time in May, according to fintech firm Ramp.
The IPO could indicate OpenAI and Anthropic have grown confident enough in their respective paths to profitability to face Wall Street. OpenAI and Anthropic did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment regarding the timing of their IPO filings.
But the numbers are just the beginning. Analysts will likely grill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about the future of their businesses and upcoming products on earnings calls, looking for signs that they have endless potential for growth.
That means they may have to answer publicly about things like delays in upcoming model releases, and how they plan to translate those models into paid products. Product pivots, like OpenAI’s decision to shutter its video app Sora, will likely face much more questioning.
“Private investors can back a vision and wait years for results,” Green wrote. “Public markets rarely offer that luxury.”
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