Paris Games Break Record for Most Proposals at an Olympics Ever (2024)

The Team USA Olympic rower proposed to his high school sweetheart, Lainey Duncan, in front of the Eiffel Tower. The romantic display included 2,738 yellow flowers to represent each day they kept their Snapchat streak alive (i.e., every single day for seven and a half years).

See the photos here.

The proposal was aired live on the Today show days after Best won his first gold medal in coxless men’s four rowing, alongside teammates Nick Mead, Michael Grady, and Liam Corrigan. The win marked the first time Team USA has won the event since 1960.

“I got the gold and the girl, and she got the diamond,” Best told People.

Gabrielle Thomas of Team USA won gold in the 200-meter final and ran to hug and kiss boyfriend Spencer McManes in a moment that captivated fans around the world.

Fans are begging Hallmark to make a rom-com about the Olympic tennis “exes,” Katerina Siniakova and Tomas Machac, who won first place in the tennis mixed doubles final and kissed. The pair, from Team Czechia, recently broke up after having dated for four years. But adorably, they still competed together at the Games, and after their last match, when they realized they would be taking home the gold, they shared a passionate, teary smooch on the court, sending the internet into a frenzy. (See the kiss here.)

“YOU CAN’T TELL ME THEY’RE NOT BACK TOGETHER. YOU CANT,” sports journalist Rodger Sherman posted alongside a clip of the pair’s post-victory press conference, during which they refused to confirm or deny reconciliation rumors.

“That’s our personal life, so you don’t need to know that,” Siniakova told a reporter who asked if they are “still together,” per the Associated Press. “We like when you are confused.”

Machac agreed, referring to their relationship status as “top secret.”

Seconds after Team USA track star Noah Lyles won the gold in the 400-meter, he sprinted straight to his girlfriend, Junelle Bromfield, who is herself a sprinter for Team Jamaica.

The power couple shared an emotional hug.

Italy’s Olympic high jumper and flagbearer Gianmarco Tamberi lost his wedding ring when it fell in the Seine River during the opening ceremony. But in a swoon-worthy move, he wrote a loving apology and ode to his wife, Chiara Bontempi Tamberi, after the incident.

“…I felt (the ring) slip away, I saw it fly … I followed (it) with a glance until I saw (it) bouncing inside the boat,” he wrote on Instagram in Italian alongside a photo of himself and Chiara together on their wedding day.

“It will stay forever in the riverbed of the City of Love, flown away while I tried to carry the Italian tricolor as high as possible during the opening ceremony of the most important sport evening in the world. If I had to invent an apology, I would never have been this imaginative,” he added. “I think there might be a huge poetic side to yesterday’s misdeed, and if you want, we’ll throw yours into that river, too, so they’ll be together forever, and we’ll have one more excuse to, like you’ve always asked, renew our vows and get married anew.”

The NFL player cheered on his wife—now the most decorated Olympic gymnast in history—during her competitions, and was there to support her with a “Biles” T-shirt when she and her Team USA won gold at the all-around team finals.

Owen has also regularly gushed about Biles on his Instagram throughout the Games. After she won first place at the individual all-around, he wrote: “Another one!!!! You’re so amazing.”

Swedish pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis broke the world record for pole vaulting, earning a gold medal, at the Games. In videos of the moment, the 24-year-old athlete is seen celebrating his milestone by running straight to girlfriend Desire Inglander on the stands and giving her a passionate, teary kiss.

Fans on social media have been sharing the clip set to Taylor Swift’s “The Alchemy,” relating the Olympics moment to the pop star’s lyrics: “Where’s the trophy? He just comes runnin’ over to me.”