Team USA stars Brittany Bowe, Hilary Knight announce engagement at Milan Cortina Olympics

American speedskater Brittany Bowe volition not permission the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics with a medal, but she volition instrumentality location with a caller ring. 

Team USA women’s hockey skipper Hilary Knight projected to Bowe astatine the 2026 Winter Games. The 2 archetypal met portion competing astatine the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Knight projected connected the eve of the women’s hockey golden medal clash betwixt the U.S. and Canada.

Knight shared the infinitesimal connected societal media, captioning a video of the 2 athletes successful matching Team USA gear, "Olympics brought america together. This 1 made america forever."

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Hilary Knight poses for a photograph during the U.S. Olympic Team Media Summit successful mentation for the 2026 Milan Olympic Winter Games astatine the Javits Center Oct. 29, 2025. (Robert Deutsch/Imagn Images)

Bowe entered with 2 bronze medals, and Knight, a four-time Olympic medalist, volition permission with a 5th — golden oregon metallic — aft Thursday's rematch with Canada.

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Knight reflected connected connecting with Bowe during the 2022 Beijing Games nether COVID-19 protocols. 

"To person that quality connection, adjacent walking extracurricular astatine a distance, it was truly cool," Knight told Olympics.com past week.

Brittany Bowe of the United States reacts aft skating successful the women's squad pursuit Final B during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games astatine Milano Speed Skating Stadium Feb. 17, 2026, successful Milan, Italy. (Katie Stratman/Imagn Images)

Bowe said she has travel to cognize a antithetic broadside of Knight beyond her superstar persona.

"Knowing her arsenic a hockey player, it’s similar this big, strong, almighty female," Bowe said. "But then, erstwhile we got to cognize each other, she was soft, genuine, kind, astir shy. That truly sparked my interest."

Brittany Bowe of the United States competes successful the women's 1500-meter contention during the ISU World Cup Speed Skating astatine Calgary Olympic Oval Nov. 22, 2025, successful Calgary, Alberta. (Leah Hennel-International Skating Union/International Skating Union via Getty Images)

Romance has been portion of the communicative astatine this year’s Games, peculiarly for Valentine’s Day. Last week, American skier Breezy Johnson’s fellow projected astatine the decorativeness of her super-G tally successful Cortina d’Ampezzo.

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Johnson captured her archetypal vocation Olympic golden medal successful the women's Alpine skiing downhill event.

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