Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde announced their engagement on April 4, 2024.Photo:Mikaela Shiffrin/Instagram
Mikaela Shiffrin/Instagram
Wedding bells are ringing forMikaela Shiffrinand Aleksander Aamodt Kilde!
The professional skiers announced their engagement in ajoint Instagram postshared on April 4.
“🤗🫶💍👫🤭,” the caption read as the pair posed for a selfie with mountains in the background.
Flashing beaming smiles, the couple appeared to be in great spirits as Shiffrin displayed her left hand which featured a dazzling engagement ring with two gold bands.
In the second snap, Kilde, 31, held up Shiffrin’s hand to the camera to offer a closer look at her diamond ring. The camera then switched to Kilde in the third photo as he held his soon-to-be bride’s hand while widening his eyes and pressing his lips together.
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Mikaela Shiffrin displaying her engagement ring to the camera.Mikaela Shiffrin/Instagram
The Olympians then shared another snap of themselves flashing bright smiles at the camera as they stood in the street in a mountainous location.
“Congratulations you guys!,” former ski racerBode Millerwrote, while the U.S, Ski Team also offered their well wishes.
Another user added, “AHHHHH YAYYY!! Never have I been so excited for two people I don’t know at all!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍,” while a third commented, “About time congratulations hopefully within the next couple decades we’ll see some super kids breaking some records.”
The duo’s happy news comes after Kildesuffered a “brutal” crashwhile competing in a World Cup downhill race in Wengen, Switzerland in January.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde holding Mikaela Shiffrin’s hand.Mikaela Shiffrin/Instagram
“He has no fractures, but is bruised. Kilde is in good hands at the hospital in Bern, says the team’s doctor Marc Jacob Strauss,” his team wrote onInstagramat the time, adding that his injuries included a dislocated shoulder and a cut on his calf.
Kilde confirmed his relationship with Shiffrin on May 31, 2021 when heposted snapsof the pair with the caption, “If you know, you know… and now you know.”
They then made theirred carpet debutat the 2021 ESPY Awards in New York City that July.
source: people.com
