US hockey star Hilary Knight proposes to speedskater Brittany Bowe at Olympics

American skater Brittany Bowe won’t depart the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics with a medal, however will return house with a brand new ring.

Hilary Knight, captain of the Workforce USA ladies’s hockey group, proposed to Bowe through the 2026 Winter Video games. The 2 first met through the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Knight proposed on the eve of the U.S.-Canada ladies’s hockey gold medal sport.

Knight shared the second on social media, captioning a video of the 2 athletes in matching Workforce USA gear: “The Olympics introduced us collectively. This one made us endlessly.”

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Hilary Knight poses for a photograph through the US Olympic Workforce Media Summit in preparation for the Milan 2026 Winter Olympics on the Javits Heart, October 29, 2025. (Robert Deutsch/Pictures)

Bowe got here in with two bronze medals, and Knight, a four-time Olympic medalist, will depart with a fifth – gold or silver – after Thursday’s rematch towards Canada.

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Knight mirrored on connecting with Bowe through the 2022 Video games in Beijing below COVID-19 protocols.

“To have that human connection even for those who walked out at a distance, it was actually cool,” Knight told Olympics.com final week.

Brittany Bowe of the US reacts after skating within the Girls’s Workforce Pursuit Closing B through the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on the Milano Pace ​​Skating Stadium on February 17, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Katie Stratman/Imagn Pictures)

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Bowe mentioned she received to know a unique aspect of Knight than her celebrity persona.

“Understanding her as a hockey participant, she’s like a giant, sturdy, highly effective lady,” Bowe mentioned. “However after we met, she was comfortable, honest, sort, nearly shy. That basically piqued my curiosity.”

Brittany Bowe of the US competes within the ladies’s 1500 meters race through the ISU Pace ​​Skating World Cup on the Calgary Olympic Oval on November 22, 2025 in Calgary, Alberta. (Leah Hennel-Worldwide Skating Union/Worldwide Skating Union by way of Getty Pictures)

Romance was a part of the story on the Video games this 12 months, particularly on Valentine’s Day. Final week, American skier Breezy Johnson’s boyfriend proposed on the end of her super-G run in Cortina d’Ampezzo.

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Johnson captured her first profession Olympic gold medal in ladies’s alpine snowboarding.

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