“Olympics brought us together. This one made us forever,” Knight wrote in her social media caption.

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Knight and Bowe’s relationship began wehn they took nightly walks together in Beijing as a way to relax following competition. A friendship blossomed into romance and now they are set to be married.

“It was just a really good way to get to know her, going for walks, getting out of our suites,” Knight told Olympics.com this week. “To have that human connection, even walking outside at a distance, it was really cool.”

As they got to know one another better, Bowe said that she knew “very quickly” that Knight would be a part of her life for a long time.

The feeling was mutual, according to Knight.

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“I knew immediately. I was like, this person’s the one,” she said.

Both Bowe and Knight have announced that the Milan Games are their last Olympics. Bowe owns two bronze medals from the 2018 team pursuit and 2022 1000m. Knight won gold in 2018 and also has three silver medals to her name.

They each can add another medal to their collections this week with Knight and the U.S. women’s hockey team facing Canada for gold on Thursday and Bowe taking part in the women’s 1,500m race on Friday.

Last week, U.S. downhill gold medalist Breezy Johnson got engaged to her boyfriend Connor Watkins at the finish line of the women’s super-G, moments after she crashed out of the event and did not finish. Also, figure skaters Olivia Smart and Jean-Luc Baker, competitors at the 2022 Olympics, got engaged on the streets of Milan on Valentine’s Day and freestyle skier Kateryna Kotsar was proposed to by now-fiancé Bohdan Fashtryha following her qualification for the big air final.