Team GB speed walker Tom Bosworth proposes to his partner Harry Dineley on Copacabana beach
The three-time British record holder is the first British track athlete to come out as gay
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Your support makes all the difference.Team GB athlete Tom Bosworth has become the latest Olympian to get engaged at the Rio games.
The speed walker and three-time British record holder, who finished sixth in the men’s 20km walk, proposed to his partner Harry Dineley on Copacabana beach.
The 26-year-old shared a picture of him popping the question on social media on Tuesday alongside the caption: “He said YES!!!”. His fiancé later shared a photo of the ring, adding: “Ok then.”
Bosworth is the first British track athlete to come out as gay. In October 2015, he explained his decision to come out on the Victoria Derbyshire show, saying he wanted to make sure the news came from him and did not disrupt his life or his family closer to the Rio Olympics.
This is by no means the first public engagement at the Rio Olympics. Chinese diver He Zi received a proposal from her boyfriend and fellow diver Qin Zai on Sunday moments after she won a silver medal for the women’s three-metre springboard. As she stepped down from the podium, he proposed to her with a velvet box.
What’s more, on Monday, Marjorie Enya, a manager at the Deodoro Stadium, proposed to her girlfriend and Olympic rugby player Isadora Cerullo on the pitch after the Brazilian squad were knocked out of the competition.
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