"I'd come to terms with the fact that the Olympics is just really hard and it's only once every four years. It's hard to have all those stars align at the right time and in the right place. Winning gold again at the 2026 Olympic Games felt surreal because of how challenging it is to achieve Olympic success."
"It was cool to combine the two loves of my life. The proposal made the Olympic victory even more memorable, and while Johnson didn't expect the scene to receive so much attention, she says the whole moment was perfect."
Breezy Johnson, a 30-year-old Team USA alpine skier, achieved a historic victory by winning gold in women's downhill at the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina, becoming the first American woman to win this event since Lindsey Vonn in 2010. Immediately after crossing the finish line, her boyfriend Connor Watkins proposed to her. Johnson, who has been skiing since age three, previously finished seventh in downhill at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics and won gold in women's downhill and team combined at the 2025 World Championships. She describes winning Olympic gold as surreal, acknowledging the difficulty of aligning all necessary factors for Olympic success. The couple met on Bumble in 2023, and Taylor Swift commented on their engagement announcement.
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