Dual world champion swimmer James Magnussen has tied the knot with long-time partner Rose McEvoy.<\/p>\n
The loved up couple said I do in front of family and loved ones on Friday in a ceremony that took place in Sydney\u2019s Watson Bay.<\/p>\n
Weather wasn\u2019t kind on the ceremony with the heavens opening up and pouring rain, but the wet conditions didn\u2019t hamper the day.<\/p>\n
An image posted to social media by the Enhanced Games showed Magnussen and McEvoy standing hand-in-hand on the altar as they faced their guests with beaming smiles on their faces.<\/p>\n
The ceremony came after the Olympic medallist got down on one knee and popped the question to McEvoy in Croatia in 2024.<\/p>\n
The pair have been together for around a decade, having met through friends as Magnussen continued to put his stamp on the world stage as one of the elite swimmers.<\/p>\n
Magnussen officially hung up the goggles from competitive swimming in 2019, but he returned to the pool last year with the Enhanced Games.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old, who had been retired for six years, became the face of the controversial competition which sees athletes take a concoction of testosterone and peptides, among other substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), to try and shatter world records.<\/p>\n
The inaugural Enhanced Games are set to take place in mid-May this year in Las Vegas where Magnussen will be hoping to shatter the 50m world record and collect a $1m payday.<\/p>\n
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Despite \u201cjuicing to the gills\u201d, Magnussen was forced to watch on as rival swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev \u2013 aided by undisclosed substances and a polyurethane suit not approved for Olympic use \u2013 broke the world record at an Enhanced Games <\/a>competition pool in North Carolina in February last year.<\/p>\n Gkolomeev touched the wall with a time of 20.89 to eclipse the world record time of 20.91 set by Cesar Cielo in 2009.<\/p>\n The feat saw Gkolomeev pocket an eye-watering US$1m prize packet which was dangled by Enhanced Games organisers.<\/p>\n Despite being pipped to the post, Magnussen is adamant he has what it takes to go faster and win the Enhanced Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n While Gkolomeev won\u2019t officially enter the record books, his time matters even less now after fellow Aussie swimmer Cameron McEvoy broke the world record last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n Racing at the China Open, McEvoy completed the one-lap dash in a time of 20.88sec and won by a body length ahead of USA\u2019s Jack Alexy (21.57) and Aussie Kyle Chalmers (22.01).<\/p>\n McEvoy later spoke out about the fact that he came away from his swim $1.4 million worse off than if he were doping.<\/p>\n