Love continues to be in the air for Olympians. Add Hilary Knight and Brittany Bowe to the list of athlete who have gotten engaged during the Milan Games.
Knight, a forward for the U.S. women’s hockey team, proposed to Bowe, a member of the American speedskating team, this week eight years after the couple met during the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
“Olympics brought us together. This one made us forever,” Knight wrote in her social media caption.
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Knight and Bowe’s relationship began when they took nightly walks together in Pyeongchang as a way to relax following competition. A friendship blossomed into romance and now they are set to be married.
“It was just a really good way to get to know her, going for walks, getting out of our suites,” Knight told Olympics.com this week. “To have that human connection, even walking outside at a distance, it was really cool.”
As they got to know one another better, Bowe said that she knew “very quickly” that Knight would be a part of her life for a long time.
The feeling was mutual, according to Knight.
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“I knew immediately. I was like, ‘This person’s the one,’” she said.
Both Bowe and Knight have announced that the Milan Games are their last Olympics. Bowe owns two bronze medals from the 2018 team pursuit and 2022 1000m. Knight won gold in 2018 and also has three silver medals to her name.
“I thought what better moment than to do it at the Olympics where we met, where we’ve spent most of our lives prepping for and just owning the world stage,” Knight told reporters on Wednesday. “It’s just been so much fun to cheer her on through her races this week and I thought this might be a good place to have a full circle moment for us.”
They each can add another medal to their collections this week with Knight and the U.S. women’s hockey team facing Canada for gold on Thursday and Bowe taking part in the women’s 1500m race on Friday.
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Last week, U.S. downhill gold medalist Breezy Johnson got engaged to her boyfriend Connor Watkins at the finish line of the women’s super-G, moments after she crashed out of the event and did not finish. Also, figure skaters Olivia Smart and Jean-Luc Baker, competitors at the 2022 Olympics, got engaged on the streets of Milan on Valentine’s Day, and freestyle skier Kateryna Kotsar was proposed to by now-fiancé Bohdan Fashtryha following her qualification for the big air final.
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