Lilly King has a brand new title on her street to the 2024 Paris Olympics — fiancée.

Moments after qualifying within the 200-meter breaststroke at Thursday’s Olympic trials, the swimmer, 27, acquired a candy proposal from her boyfriend, James Wells.

NBC Sports activities shared a video of the second, exhibiting King overwhelmed with emotion as Wells declared his love for her.

“Getting to observe you over the past 4 years, each out and in of the pool, and simply to see you develop has been so superior,” Wells mentioned as King seemed away and joked that she wants somebody to repair her hair.

“I do not remorse for a minute dropping my job and shifting midway throughout the nation for us to maneuver in collectively,” Wells continued. “It has been superior, and I’m very excited to see the place that is going. So, pricey, I used to be questioning, Lilly Camille King, will you marry me?”

King instantly mentioned sure, kissed Wells and the 2 of them embraced.

Throughout an interview, King mentioned she had no clue concerning the proposal.

“I used to be actually confused ‘trigger Annie [Lazor] advised me to place my hair down earlier than I walked out as an alternative of getting it in my cap, and I used to be like, ‘Okay, sounds good,’ after which I used to be simply confused since you had been down right here,” she advised NBC Sports activities.

King will characterize Staff USA within the 200-meter breaststroke and compete within the 100-meter breaststroke. With these {qualifications}, King will grow to be the primary U.S. swimmer to swim each the 100 and 200-meter breaststroke at three consecutive Olympic Video games, per Bleacher Report.

The Indiana native has competed in two Olympic video games, incomes two gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal.

Earlier this month, King introduced that she is just not aiming on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

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“I might be watching in Los Angeles, and I’m good with that call, I can’t be finished after this summer season, however I can’t be going one other 4 years. I’ll be cheering on the group,” she advised The Indianapolis Star.