New York native Sophia Kirkby made history with her luge partner Chevonne Forgan, becoming part of the first team to complete a women\u2019s doubles luge run at the Olympics.<\/p>\n
Now that her race is over, Kirkby says a different kind of competition has taken center stage: romance.<\/p>\n
While she was sliding down the track, potential suitors were sliding into her direct messages.<\/p>\n
Kirkby has dubbed herself the athlete village\u2019s \u201cmost eligible bachelorette,\u201d sharing glimpses of her Olympic dating life with followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Sophia Kirkby made history competing in women\u2019s doubles luge at the 2026 Winter Olympics
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She says she received about 2,000 new direct messages after going viral on Instagram
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Athletes at the 2026 Games are housed in multiple villages across northern Italy based on their sport
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Kirkby says dating at the Olympics has taught her to be open-minded and take risks<\/p>\n
Instead of handing out roses like they do on The Bachelorette, she has been trading homemade Olympic pins for cappuccino dates.<\/p>\n
She says she has received around 2,000 new messages since going viral.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere I’m from, it\u2019s slim pickings in the dating world. So, I wanted to take this opportunity to meet people from all around that enjoy Olympic sports as much as I do,\u201d she said. \u201cI think it’s a great opportunity. A lot of people are here to enjoy watching and participating in sports. And overall, people are just in a great mood. So it’s an electric environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kirkby is competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics, where athletes are spread across multiple villages in northern Italy depending on their sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am in a small Olympic village consisting of luge, bobsled, skeleton and then men’s curling,\u201d Kirkby said. \u201cSo I already know all the luge guys. If I wanted to date them, I wouldn’t have already. I’m not doing bobsled again. My ex was a bobsledder. And I don’t know, skeleton, I think everyone’s got a girlfriend or something. And curling, I think they got girlfriends too.\u201d<\/p>\n
The upstate New Yorker\u2019s dating pool has expanded beyond the village.<\/p>\n
She says her Valentine\u2019s Day date flew in from the United Kingdom just to see her. The pair spent the day at a spa and had dinner at a Michelin-starred restaurant.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe DMed me a few weeks ago. We had messages here and there. And then two weeks ago, he said, \u2018hey, I just realized I have a couple days off. Would it be so weird if I came to visit you at the Olympics?\u2019 And I told him, \u2018no, no, come on,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Kirkby says she has several more prospects lined up \u2014 and plenty of pins left to hand out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just wanted to take this opportunity to just meet new people and have great experiences here in the Olympic village,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The experience, she added, has come with perspective.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven elite Olympic athletes \u2014 our dating lives are not perfect,\u201d she said. \u201cI’ve learned to be open-minded and just take risks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York native Sophia Kirkby made history with her luge partner Chevonne Forgan, becoming part of the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2296,11101,25,3691,231,9,24,11,10,12,15559,319,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-135036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-human-interest","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-emma-barnett","12":"tag-human-interest","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-olympics","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}