Argentine fencer Maria Belen Perez Maurice Monday, July 26, accepted a marriage proposal from her long-term partner and coach in front of television cameras at the Olympics. This was the second time he had proposed to her in an unconventional manner.
After her first-round exit in her third Olympics, the athlete was disappointingly answering questions from reporters when her coach, Lucas Saucedo, appeared behind her with a piece of paper in his hand reading “Do you want to marry me?”. He put one knee to the ground while saying, “Tell me yes, a lot of people are looking at us.”
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Saucedo tried a similar stunt at the world championships in Paris in 2010, but with far less luck. Back then, she had replied that was it a “joke or what?”
Eleven years later, she accepted the proposal. Perez Maurice, who has been in a relationship with Saucedo for 17 years said that she was “speechless” and “I said to myself ‘Oh my God’.”
In another separate event, German football forward Max Kruse successfully asked his girlfriend to marry him on live TV on Sunday after his team’s 3-2 win over Saudi Arabia. (AW)
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