‘Love is in Paris’: France’s Alice Finot proposes to boyfriend after breaking European steeplechase record

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‘Love is in Paris’: France’s Alice Finot proposes to boyfriend after breaking ********* steeplechase record

French athlete Alice Finot celebrated breaking the ********* women’s 3000m steeplechase record in Tuesday’s final by proposing to her boyfriend after the race.

Finot finished fourth with a time of 8:58.67 behind medalists Winfred Yavi of Bahrain, Peruth Chemutai of Uganda and ****** Cherotich of Kenya. It marked the first time four women broke nine minutes.

Finot then went to the stands to hug her boyfriend — triathlete Bruno Martínez Bargiela from Spain — and got down on one knee to propose with an Olympic pin. Bargiela said yes and Finot pinned his shirt.

French athlete Alice Finot broke the ********* steeplechase record, finishing fourth in the final and proposed after.

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“I told myself that if I ran under nine minutes, knowing that nine is my lucky number and that we’ve been together for nine years, then I would propose,” Finot told reporters,

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“I don’t like doing things like everyone else. Since he hadn’t done it yet, I told myself that maybe it was up to me to do it. So, I gave a pin that I ran with to my boyfriend. On it, it says: Love is in Paris.”

With her proposal, Finot joined a growing list of Olympians getting engaged at the Paris Games.

Last week, China’s Huang Ya Qiong left her badminton mixed doubles final with a gold medal and a diamond ring after her boyfriend, Liu Yu Chen, a ******** badminton player also competing in Paris, surprised her with flowers and a proposal. Huang said yes.

On Friday, French skiff sailing partners Sarah Steyaert and Charline Picon

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after winning bronze in the women’s skiff 49erFX. Their boyfriends promised Steyaert and Picon that they would get engaged if the sailing partners medaled.

U.S. shot putter Payton Otterdahl

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, Maddy Nilles, in front of the Eiffel Tower on Sunday, one day after placing fourth in the men’s shot put final. On Monday, U.S. rower Justin Best

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Lainey Duncan, live on the “Today” show.

The day before the Opening Ceremony, men’s handball player

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during a photo op for Argentina’s athletes in the Olympic Village.

 (Photo: Hannah Peters / Getty Images)