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- Love has been well and truly in the air at the Paris Olympics.
- There have been multiple proposals at this year's Games.
- Business Insider has taken a look at the couples competing at the 2024 Olympics.
Love is truly in the air at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, with a number of couples taking part in the Games.
From Hunter Woodhall and Tara Davis-Woodhall to Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt, here are the couples competing in the City of Love.
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Shortly after Huang won a gold medal in the badminton mixed doubles, Liu got down on one knee and popped the question.
Liu is also an Olympic medal-winning member of China's badminton team, having won silver at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
"For me, the proposal is very surprising because I have been preparing for the game," Huang told the Associated Press via an interpreter. "Today I am an Olympic champion and I got proposed, so that's something I didn't expect."
Before the opening ceremony, Simonet, who plays for Argentina's men's handball team, proposed to Maria Campoy, who plays for the women's hockey team.
The couple have been together since 2015, and previously both competed in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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Boulter, who plays for Great Britain, and Australia's De Minaur previously played mixed doubles together at Wimbledon in 2023.
The couple have been together since 2020, celebrating their four-year anniversary in March.
In a 2022 interview published on FC Bayern Munich soccer club's website, the pair discussed what it was like being in a relationship as elite athletes.
"I find it really helpful because both of us understand what you have to do for your sport, that you're away a lot and don't see each other that often. Otherwise it would be really hard," Vadlau said.
"On the other hand, if I wasn't a sportswoman we could see each other a lot more often," Schüller said.
"It's a bit like a long-distance relationship. Not because we live in different places - we live together in Munich - it's just one of us is always away," she added.
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The couple, who have been together since around 2019, married in 2021.
They welcomed their daughter, Skai, in October 2022, making this their first Olympic games as parents.
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The couple first met in 2017 at a high school track meet when they were teenagers.
The pair got engaged after the Tokyo Games in 2021 and tied the knot in October 2022.
Woodhall is a double-amputee sprinter and three-time Paralympic medallist.
Davis-Woodhall, a long jumper, also competed at the Tokyo Games.
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The pair met just before the 2012 Olympic Games in London and married in 2019.
They both study medicine at the University of Kentucky.
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The same-sex couple play on Australia's 3×3 basketball team.
"It's about getting to create something that is normal and to have visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community," Maley told The Courier Mail ahead of the Games.
"It's obviously about basketball, but how cool is it that we get to be that example for the younger girls and boys who get to see that representation on an Olympic stage," she added.
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Fiamingo and Paltrinieri have both won Olympic gold medals.
The couple met at the Olympic Games in Tokyo and are now engaged.
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The teammates opened up about their secret eight-year romance during an episode of the "Watch with Alex Cooper" Olympics show in late July.
"Tobin and I were not really friends. We weren't really running in the same circles. And then as soon as I actually got to know her, there was just, like, a magnetism," Press said.
Their countries may be rivals on the track, but the loved-up pair have been dating since 2022.
Lyle won the men's 100m in a thrilling race on Sunday.
Bromfield won a bronze medal in the women's 4 x 400m relay at the Tokyo Games.
Chianca and Silva lost out in the quarter-finals of the men's and women's surfing, respectively.
Chianca's Olympic medal dream ended against fellow Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina — who may have claimed the Games' most iconic photo.
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Černý proposed to Burzalova at the finish line of the women's 35km race at the 2023 World Athletics Championships last August.
"We have been together for almost one Olympic cycle, almost four years, so I think it was the right time," Černý told Olympics.com following the proposal.
The couple are both judo stars.
"After a long qualification period together, we're excited to compete on the same day at the Olympics," Willems told Olympics.com ahead of the Games.
Willems took home a bronze medal, while Parlati lost out to the US's John Jayne.
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Fortunately, the two volleyball players did not play against each other at this year's games.
The Brazilian women's team faces the Dominican Republic in the quarter-finals on August 6, while the Dutch team crashed out in the preliminary rounds.
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The French fencing couple married in 2021.
Apithy-Brunet took home gold for the host nation in the women's fencing sabre individual at the 2024 Games.
Apithy won bronze in the men's team sabre.
Moore made history at the Paris Games, becoming the first US woman to qualify for both the triple jump and the long jump at an Olympics, the Associated Press reported.
Her boyfriend, Fahnbulleh, was born in Minnesota but competes for Liberia. He is through to the 200m semi-finals after winning his first-round heat.
"Our finals are on the same night, for long jump and the 200-meter. So I'm like, 'Lord, please, let's just both get medals that day!'" Moore told People. "Hopefully all of our families can just party and go to dinner and stuff like that."