The ring is a silver band wrapped around a blue gemstone with tiny diamonds embedded in the metal.
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Province of Belluno — Breezy Johnson will be taking home more than a gold medal from Italy now that she’s finished competing at the 2026 Olympics. She’ll be taking home a fiancé.
The Olympic champion’s engagement to boyfriend Connor Watkins was announced Thursday by the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding team, shortly after Johnson competed in the women’s super-G.
Photos accompanying the post show the ring: a silver-colored band wrapped around a blue gemstone, with small diamonds embedded in the metal.
The box Watkins proposed with was inscribed with the phrase “Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?”
Johnson had just completed her final Olympic event of the 2026 Games, a disappointing DNF in the women’s super-G, one of her favorite races.
Before the super-G, Johnson competed Tuesday with her childhood friend and teammate Mikaela Shiffrin in the alpine skiing women’s team combined event. The pair was 0.06 seconds away from a podium finish in that race.
And she was the first American to medal in the 2026 Games, taking home the first-place finish in the women’s alpine ski downhill race.
Johnson finished in 1 minute, 36.10 seconds to hold off Emma Aicher of Germany by just .04 seconds, securing the first medal for the United States of these Winter Games in the process. Italy’s Sofia Goggia, the 2018 Olympic downhill winner and 2022 silver medalist, finished with the bronze.