Olympians get engaged at Milan Cortina Games 4 years after falling in love at 2022 Beijing Games

Valentine’s Day could also be over, however love remains to be within the air for 2 Team USA Olympians.

Women’s ice hockey ahead Hilary Knight, 36, and speedskater Brittany Bowe, 37, introduced their engagement in an Instagram post Wednesday morning.

“Olympics brought us together. This one made us forever,” Knight and Bowe wrote alongside a video displaying Knight getting down on one knee and presenting a purple field and engagement ring to Bowe.

Knight and Bowe are in Italy for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina. Knight is captain of the U.S. ladies’s hockey workforce and gearing up for Thursday’s gold medal matchup in opposition to Canada.

Bowe, an extended monitor velocity skater and a four-time Olympian, will compete subsequent on Feb. 20 within the ladies’s speedskating 1,500-meter race.

The longtime couple first met on the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, in line with The Associated Press, and fell in love on the 2022 Beijing Games, as Bowe instructed Team USA final 12 months.

“She asked if I wanted to go on a walk,” Bowe recalled of her interplay with Knight on the 2022 Beijing Games. “That became our routine. We’d walk the [Olympic] Village after dinner and just talk. It was cool living in a bubble and not having outside distractions.”

Knight and Bowe aren’t the primary couple to get engaged on the Olympics this month.

Skier Breezy Johnson stated sure to boyfriend Connor Watkins’ proposal on the super-G end line final week. Spanish determine skater Olivia Smart additionally obtained engaged to her former rival, British American ice dancer Jean-Luc Baker, in Milan, and Ukrainian freestyle skier Kateryna Kotsar obtained engaged to her boyfriend Bohdan Fashtryha after qualifying for the ladies’s huge air ultimate at Livigno Snow Park in Livigno, Italy.