American swimmer Lilly King is headed to Paris subsequent month with some additional {hardware} after the two-time Olympic gold medalist’s longtime boyfriend popped the query following her second place end within the ladies’s 200-meter breaststroke on the U.S. Olympic trials on Thursday evening.
King, who already certified together with her win within the ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke, was strolling off the pool deck at Lucas Oil Stadium after qualifying for her second particular person occasion when her boyfriend, former Indiana University swimmer James Wells, approached her.
“Getting to observe you over the past 4 years, each out and in of the pool, and simply to see you develop has been so superior,” Wells stated in a video shared by NBC Sports.
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“I do not remorse for a minute dropping my job and transferring midway throughout the nation for us to maneuver in collectively. It has been superior, and I’m very excited to see the place this goes. So, pricey, I used to be questioning, Lilly Camille King, will you marry me?”
King, 27, stated “sure” straight away and the couple sealed their engagement with a kiss.
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“I didn’t see it” Team USA’s Ryan Murphy stated of King’s engagement.
“That’s unbelievable. I’d love to listen to her response to how it’s to get proposed to fully out of breath and soaked. That’s unbelievable. She have to be using an absolute excessive.”
King stated in an interview after the proposal that she had been fully caught off guard, however former teammate Annie Lazor did recommend she put her hair down simply moments earlier than.
Lilly King of the United States competes within the Women’s 100m breaststroke remaining on Day Three of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium on June 17, 2024, in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
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King, a five-time Olympic medalist, will seem in her third Summer Games subsequent month. She final received the silver medal within the ladies’s 200-meter breaststroke and bronze within the 100-meter in Tokyo.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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