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Cheating, a proposal, cute couples — but are the Olympics really the place for love?

She didn't win a second medal, but she still left the Olympics with some extra hardware. She didn't get gold, but there was a silver lining. She may have crashed, but it was her boyfriend that got down on one knee.

These are just some of the lines various media outlets have written about U.S. downhill skiing champion Breezy Johnson's engagement at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics Thursday.

The proposal came about an hour after Johnson’s bid to reach the podium in the super-G ended with a crash high in the course when her right pole clipped a gate and sent her tumbling into the catch fence. This meant she didn't get on the podium after winning gold on Sunday. But she did get... her man (apologies, we couldn't help ourselves).

Now, before you join us in the world's heaviest sigh over yet another finish line proposal, keep in mind that Johnson said she always dreamed of getting engaged at the Olympics. So her longtime boyfriend, Connor Watkins, wasn't taking the spotlight off Johnson's accomplishments, but giving her the kind of special moment she'd wanted.

"It felt fitting to combine two of my loves," Johnson later told reporters. "It’s a special place at the Olympics."

Still, not everyone was thrilled about seeing a proposal overtake the moment. And this comes amid another public display during this year's Olympics — Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid's confession that he cheated on his girlfriend and wanted her back.

All of which has some people wondering whether the Olympic Games are really the most appropriate time and place for declarations of love.

"Both the time, place and timing were completely wrong," biathlon great Johannes Thingnes Boe, who won four gold medals at the Beijing Games, told the Norwegian

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