Chinese Olympic Badminton Player Gets Engaged After Winning Gold Medal in Paris

Liu Yuchen proposes to Huang Ya Qiong after she won gold at the Paris Olympics.

Huang Ya Qiong and Zheng Siwei of China won the gold medal in badminton mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics, defeating South Korea's Jeong Na-eun and Kim Won-ho in two sets. It's hard to imagine the day getting better from there, but Huang's boyfriend Liu Yuchen had other ideas.

As Huang and Zheng left the podium, Liu was waiting with flowers. A seemingly surprised Huang accepted the flowers and then Liu pulled out a ring and dropped to one knee to propose. She said yes.

"I’ll love you forever! Will you marry me?"
"Yes! I do!"

OMG!!! Romance at the Olympics!!!❤️❤️❤️

Huang Yaqiong just had her "dream come true", winning a badminton mixed doubles gold medal🥇with her teammate Zheng Siwei

Then her boyfriend Liu Yuchen proposed! 🎉🎉🎉 pic.twitter.com/JxMIipF7ij

— Li Zexin (@XH_Lee23) August 2, 2024

Liu is in Paris representing China in men's doubles. He and teammate Ou Xuanyi are 3–1 in group play. Liu won silver at the Tokyo Olympics when he was partnered with Li Junhui. Fittingly, Huang and Zheng also took home silver in mixed doubles 2020.

It's been an incredibly busy Olympics for life events. This is actually the second proposal of the Paris games as two athletes from Argentina got engaged a few days ago. Then there was Ryan Murphy's wife doing a gender reveal after he won a bronze medal. It's only a matter of time until someone actually gets married during an event.

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