An exciting day which saw yesterday, at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Alice Finot, and not just for the race he ran.
In the 3000m steeplechase final of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the 33-year-old French athlete won a European record and fiancée. Despite his fourth place, Finot he achieved an extraordinary time: 8'58''67. No European athlete had ever achieved this before and no French athlete had ever exceeded 9 minutes. A result that he wanted to celebrate with a romantic gesture.
Alice Finot does not make it to the podium in the 3000m steeplechase but as soon as she arrives she proposes to her boyfriend (X/Olympic Games)
Running towards the audience, he reached the stand where his Spanish companion was and She knelt down before him, handing him the “Love is in Paris” pin she had entered the competition with.
A marriage proposal which had scheduled in advance: she and her partner have been together for 9 years and Finot had therefore decided that if she had run under 9 minutes, a result she had never achieved in her career, she would celebrate this lucky number.
The spontaneity of this moment surprised and moved the Olympic stadium and touched the hearts of the French.
