"Hey guys... meet Connor! My ex boyfriend! And current fiancé!!! 💍 Thank you to everyone who made this moment possible. It was everything I ever dreamed of. Kind of like Connor!"
"Guys! When your girlfriend asks to get engaged at the Olympics to combine the two loves of her life... listen. Thanks for armchair qbing my moment but maybe do more research than reading one headline! Thanks!!!"
"I had suggested that it was always kind of my dream to get engaged at the Olympics, so, yeah. He planned the whole thing out, and it was a very awesome moment with all of my teammates and friends and family around. It was pretty special."
"I think there's a lot of armchair quarterbacks out there that were like, 'Oh my Gosh, he's stealing her moment!' There were people who seemed to think that he did it while I was standing on the medals stand."
Breezy Johnson won gold in the women's downhill and accepted a public engagement from partner Connor Watkins at the race finish line with teammates, friends, and family nearby. The proposal prompted accusations that the partner had stolen her moment. Breezy responded on social platforms and pushed back against critics, noting the Olympic proposal had long been her dream and that she had an inkling he would propose. She described the event as carefully planned by Connor and "pretty special," called out online "armchair quarterbacks," and urged people not to "yuck other people's yum."
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