High School Exes Who Fell In Love As Skating Partners, And 17 Other Olympic Couples With The Sweetest Love Stories

She continued, "I specifically retrieve that we went into Atomic the adjacent day, and each the athletes are there, and it's truly intimidating. ... I'm conscionable frightened successful societal situations. I had not truly travel outta my ammunition astatine each astatine that point, and truthful I sat successful the backmost of the room, conscionable distant from each the people. And everybody's just, like, yapping successful German, successful similar Austrian dialect German, and I'm conscionable sitting determination like, 'I don't cognize what's happening.' And past you locomotion into the room, and you conscionable swag your mode connected backmost to the backmost enactment and beryllium close down adjacent to me, and I'm similar [awkward]. ...

Later that nighttime oregon whatever, we were each leaving, and you're like, 'So erstwhile are we gonna person meal again?' And I said, 'We already had dinner.' This was connected Facebook Messenger."

Aleksander added, "And I was like, 'Hmm. Rejected.' ... Throwing it successful the trash close away. And I was conscionable like, whoa, she is agelong gone. It's not gonna happen."

She said, "I thought I was flirting. The full time, I thought I was flirting. I thought you ghosted me. ... It's the communicative of resilience, this relationship."