Quite honestly, I always have this thing about the Olympics, where I’ll enjoy watching all of the sports but then I’ll become absolutely sick with jealousy that I’m not an Olympian. Like, how much fun would it be to just hang out in the Olympic village and trade pins and go and watch other athletes compete? Why am I not there? Why can’t I do that?? I felt that so hard during the Paris Olympics in 2024, just absolute heartbreak and fury that I’m not an Olympian. It’s happening again with the Milano Cortina Olympics right now. I bring up my jealousy because I imagine it’s probably common among Olympians’ partners and significant others. So it was for Breezy Johnson’s boyfriend. Breezy, an alpine skier, won gold last weekend but she was back in competition for the women’s Super-G. She crashed out (literally). As she limped to the finish line, her boyfriend decided to make that moment all about himself. He proposed to her right there.

Breezy Johnson is bringing home plenty of hardware from the Olympics! Five days after the alpine skier won gold in the women’s downhill, Johnson, 30, got engaged to her boyfriend Connor Watkins in front of the crowds at the finish line of her final race on Thursday, Feb. 12.

A few minutes after competing in the women’s Super-G, where she unfortunately crashed and couldn’t finish the race, Watkins got down on one knee in the snow and pulled out a ring, and a Taylor Swift quote etched in wood.

A tearful Johnson said yes, as they hugged to cheers from the crowd. She later showed off the ring, featuring a curving band and a blue gem, and the quote — “Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy,” from Swift’s song “The Alchemy.”

Watkins told NBC that he had been planning out his proposal for a year, and was “really hoping that I could get in the finish area and do it the way I wanted. And it turned out we could, and we’re just super excited.” He added that the moment had “gone above and beyond our wildest imagination.”

Johnson, for her part, admitted that she “may have told him that I just always kind of had the dream of getting engaged at the Olympics. I mean, that was my hope!” she said. “But it’s definitely a lot more crazy with everything just happening all at once, and the reality of it is so different than the way you imagined, and so much better.”

Watkins and Johnson said they planned to spend the rest of the day celebrating their engagement with friends and family in Cortina, before traveling to Livigno, where snowboarding, moguls and men’s alpine skiing is taking place, to watch more of the 2026 Games.

[From People]

Let’s be fair to Breezy’s now-fiance: she told him that this was what she wanted, and it kind of sounds like they had talked about all of this well in advance, so he knew that she would be cool with a public proposal and an Olympic proposal. I kind of wonder if she wanted a proposal on the snow right after she crashed though. I mean… mixed emotions, to say the least. People always have strong (negative) feelings about public proposals, but maybe Olympic proposals are the exception to the rule? There were TONS of proposals at the Paris Olympics too. Also: the ring is so unusual! I guess it’s a sapphire, but it looks more like a fashion ring than an engagement ring.

An Olympic proposal! 😍

Team USA's Breezy Johnson said YES after her partner proposed at the Super-G finish line 🫶#MilanoCortina2026 #AlpineSkiing pic.twitter.com/GqAsNd5YNW

— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) February 12, 2026

.@_BreezyJohnson just added another ring to the Olympics 💍🥹

Huge congrats to Breezy and Connor on their engagement 🫶 pic.twitter.com/lQASJPAMnb

— U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team (@usskiteam) February 12, 2026

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.