The five-time Olympic medalist received a different kind of gold after qualifying for the 200m breaststroke at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Team USA swimmer qualified for her second event of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Thursday, and she didn't have to wait until Paris to get some gold.Moments after she got out of the pool at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, her boyfriend dropped to one knee and proposed.
After Lilly King qualified for her second race for the Paris Olympics, her fiancé gave her a ring of her own. 💍"It's been really incredible for me to be able to watch you over the last four years both in and out of the pool and just to see you grow has been so awesome," said her boyfriend, former Indiana University swimmer James Wells."It has been awesome, and I'm very excited to see where this goes from here on.
King is quite familiar with having gold and silver placed upon her after getting out of the pool. She already has won five Olympic medals -- two gold, two silver and one bronze. She'll now become the first U.S. swimmer to compete in the 100m and 200m breaststroke in three straight Olympic games. She won the 100m breaststroke on Tuesday and placed second in the 200m on Thursday behind Kate Douglass to claim her spot in each event in Paris. King, 27, won gold in the 100m breaststroke and 4x100 medley relay at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She then took bronze in the 100m and silver in the relay and 200m breaststroke at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
King, who wore her ring during Thursday's medal ceremony, said she wasn't expecting to get some new hardware after her swim, despite being told to take her swim cap off and let her hair down.U.S. swimmer Regan Smith set a new world record in the 100m backstroke at the U.S. Swim Trials on Tuesday.
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