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Gold medal wins hearts.
Olympic gold medal wins hearts at the Paris Olympics: Being set in the official ‘City of Love’ has given a distinctly romantic flavour to the 2024 Olympic Games. We’ve now been served up with no less than seven wedding proposals so far during the Olympics, from Chinese badminton champs Liu Yuchen and Huang Yagiong, to French track star Alice Finot, who flipped the traditional script and got on her bended (and no doubt sore) knee:
After the women’s 3000 metres steeplechase final, she ran towards the stand searching for her partner, kneeled down and proposed by offering him an Olympic pin which she had held during the race.
The other day we had a look at divorce and Olympic athletes. Today, we’re taking another little stickybeak at the relationships of the fast… and now rich.
Olympic gold may have love in the air, but that hasn’t stopped the inevitable sourpusses coming out and criticising Liu Yuchen for having “stolen his partner’s spotlight”, proposing immediately after his girl had scored a gold medal.
“Men will always want the spotlight. That’s her moment, then comes a man.”
On the other hand, Italian high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi wins the gold for romantic gestures, delivering a poem to his wife to apologise for having ‘accidentally’ tossed his wedding ring into the Seine.
”In a swoon-worthy move, he wrote a loving apology and ode to his wife, Chiara Bontempi Tamberi, after the incident.
Which included the grand statement:
“And if you want, we’ll throw your [ring] into that river, too, so they’ll be together forever, and we’ll have one more excuse to, like you’ve always asked, renew our vows and get married anew.”
Aww, you have to love these Olympic gold junkies.
And perhaps the silver medal for poetic statements should go to boxer Harry Garside, where not getting Olympic gold didn’t stop him waxing lyrical about his new love:
“In the process of the last seven months I fell in love, and it happened so unexpectedly. I feel really grateful that I don’t know what the next little period for me holds, but I know that person will definitely have my back.” Garside said he was “really excited” for this new part of his life.
“We’re humans, we’re animals, and love is, for me, the most beautiful emotion,” he said.
We just hope they’re all sorting out their Olympic gold standard prenups, particularly where all that precious metal is involved…
And lastly… gold medal for grand parenting
Last time, we mentioned US skateboarding champ Chris Joslin being raised by his grandmother and shuddering to think what his life would have been like if she’d let him go into “the system”.
Simone Biles goes one step further as another Olympian whose life stems from difficult beginnings. She recently expanded on her experience. Before her nanna took over care by adopting the future star when she was six, little Simone bounced around the foster care system, due to her mother’s issues with substance abuse. Says the gymnast who many regard as the GOAT*, she was “fortunate” to be able to stay with her siblings instead of being split up into different homes, and to have always had the support of her maternal grandparents. Biles says of being separated from her drug-addicted mother:
“Being placed in foster care before I officially got adopted by my grandparents, it just set me up for a better route at life,” Biles said. “I feel like I wouldn’t be where I am unless that turning point happened.”
Grandparents who want to formalise their kinship caring duties can do so by way of a parenting agreement or consent orders, or if need be, consider further formal legal steps. Give us a call to discuss any of these options.
Can’t get enough of love and the Paris Olympics? Glamour has you covered with a comprehensive round-up of Olympian affairs of the heart.
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*Sorry: GOAT – ‘greatest of all time’ (for anyone over 25)
