{"id":281520,"date":"2026-02-13T03:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281520\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:14:07","slug":"breezy-johnson-engaged-after-winter-olympics-crash-as-taylor-swift-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281520\/","title":{"rendered":"Breezy Johnson engaged after Winter Olympics crash as Taylor Swift reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BreezyBreezy Johnson’s wedding ring and the piece of wood with Taylor Swift’s lyrics. Photo \/ @breezyjohnsonski<\/p>\n

Johnson said to reporters afterwards it had always been a dream to get engaged at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

However, Watkins told the Washington Post he was unsure about the proposal after Johnson crashed out of the race and sent a member of the team to check if she was in the right frame of mind. <\/p>\n

\u201cHis words were so beautiful,\u201d Johnson told NPR. \u201cI was just crying and thinking about how much I love him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The engagement post even caught the eye of pop superstar Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n

Along with the ring, Watkins gave his fiancee a piece of wood engraved with Swift\u2019s lyrics, \u201chonestly, who are we to fight the alchemy\u201d?<\/p>\n

Swift commented on the post saying, \u201dwhere\u2019s the trophy? He just comes running over to me CONGRATULATIONS\u201c! <\/p>\n

Her comment alone has racked up over 37,330 likes.<\/p>\n

\"BreezyBreezy Johnson and her fiance Connor Watkins. Photo \/ @breezyjohnsonski<\/p>\n

This particular love story started online via a dating app. The pair told reporters they met on Bumble and went out to brunch. <\/p>\n

Watkins, who works in construction, did not know he was sitting down with one of the world\u2019s best skiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no idea who she was,\u201d Watkins said. <\/p>\n

\u201cTen minutes into the conversation, I was, like, \u2018hey, so what do you do\u2019? And that was an interesting answer at first. I was a little taken aback.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breezy Johnson’s wedding ring and the piece of wood with Taylor Swift’s lyrics. Photo \/ @breezyjohnsonski Johnson said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,8239,806,23485,55513,3549,20496,6095,2004,4241,305,16285,8274,26019,14771,111,139,69,46449,5106,19762,29952,157478,544,213,6100,116290,11208,163,23644],"class_list":["post-281520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-american","tag-as","tag-bottom","tag-breezy","tag-crash","tag-crashing","tag-engaged","tag-engagement","tag-gold","tag-have","tag-jewellery","tag-johnson","tag-medal","tag-missed","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olympian","tag-olympics","tag-reacts","tag-ring","tag-slope","tag-some","tag-sports","tag-still","tag-superg","tag-swift","tag-taylor","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}