Olympians Hilary Knight And Brittany Bowe Get Engaged Before Gold Medal Hockey Match

Hilary Knight and Brittany Bowe person added a caller ringing to their Olympics acquisition — nan skipper of nan U.S. women’s lucky squad and nan American speedskater are engaged.

The mates shared nan happy news Wednesday connected Instagram pinch a video of Knight getting down connected 1 knee to popular nan question. “Olympics brought america together. This 1 made america forever,” sounds nan caption of nan video, which besides features Bowe showing disconnected her caller hardware while successful nan arms of her fiancée.

According to nan Associated Press, Knight had been reasoning astir proposing while astatine nan Milan-Cortina Games “for a fewer months.”

“We met done nan Olympics and conscionable being a portion of nan Olympic tone and nan journey, I thought it would beryllium a really full-circle infinitesimal for some of america considering it’s our past clip done to beryllium capable to observe it present and necktie nan knot,” Knight said Wednesday aft her team’s last believe earlier its gold badge game. The U.S. women’s lucky squad will look disconnected against perennial rivals Canada connected Thursday.

Knight and Bowe began making love astatine nan 2022 Beijing Games aft nan lucky prima asked to subordinate nan racer connected regular walks done nan Olympic village. While nan athletes had antecedently crossed paths astatine different Olympic events, Beijing was erstwhile they began spending clip together.

The Milan-Cortina Games people nan 5th Olympics for Knight and 4th for Bowe. Knight, who has a golden and 3 metallic medals from her erstwhile Olympics, will adhd different badge to her haul connected Thursday. Bowe is simply a two-time bronze medalist and presently holds nan world grounds successful nan 1000 meters. Both stars person announced these Olympic Games are their last.

Knight and Bowe are not nan only American Olympians whose emotion communicative has been successful nan spotlight. Downhill golden medalist Breezy Johnson sewage engaged past week aft 1 of her events. There person besides been immoderate breakup rumors involving Olympic rivals.