Breezy Johnson Gets Engaged At Winter Olympics After Boyfriend Proposes At Finish Line - Beritaja

MILAN — Four days aft Breezy Johnson’s Winter Olympics began pinch skiing’s downhill golden medal, the American prima added a caller portion of jewelry.

An engagement ring.

Johnson’s boyfriend, Connor Watkins, projected astatine the guidelines of the super-G tally successful Cortina D’Ampezzo connected Thursday and Johnson tearfully accepted.

Wearing a USA jacket, Watkins dropped to a knee successful the decorativeness area surrounded by skiers and competitors from different countries, and raised a metallic ringing pinch a bluish gem astatine its center. Johnson put a manus to her sunglasses while becoming visibly emotional. After saying yes, Watkins stood and kissed Johnson arsenic U.S. teammates and officials cheered.

Breezy Johnson's engagement ring.Beritaja

The engagement came connected a time of mixed emotions for Johnson. More than an hr earlier Watkins proposed, Johnson, 30, collapsed during the super-G final. She was 1 of much than a twelve skiers who did not decorativeness aft either crashing aliases skiing disconnected the course.

In 2022, Johnson came retired arsenic bisexual, posting connected societal media that she “wanted to beryllium unfastened about who I am.”

Watkins has shouted connected Johnson from Cortina, including being successful the stands for her golden badge Sunday successful the women’s downhill, erstwhile Johnson joined Lindsey Vonn, successful 2010, arsenic the only American female to triumph the event.

Johnson missed retired connected a 2nd badge successful the squad mixed arena connected Tuesday. Though she vanished first successful the downhill portion, her teammate Mikaela Shiffrin struggled successful the slalom and they vanished fourth.