These 4 Duos Are Taking “Power Couple” to New Heights at the Tokyo Olympics

Not only are they both current Olympians, the couple’s love story actually began back in 2016 with the Rio Olympics. Although they knew each other from the Seattle sports scene, it wasn’t until a sponsored event during the 2016 games that they actually became friends. “It was kinda like, ‘OK, we both live in Seattle, we should be friends. Why aren’t we friends?'” Megan previously told The Seattle Times. After dating for four years, Megan proposed in October 2020.

The pair have been together since 2013, after meeting while training for the Rugby Sevens World Cup. They currently own a farm in Queensland, Australia.

An adorable meet-cute made for a Netflix rom-com, Tara and Hunter first met as teenagers at a 2017 track meet in Utah. Hunter saw Tara race the hurdles and apparently told his best friend, “Damn, that girl is fine. I’m gonna marry that girl.” After months of long-distance dating, the pair’s first date was in June 2017, and they’ve been together ever since.

The Olympics aren’t the first time the pair are playing together, they’ve previously represented Wasps in the Premier 15s league. “There was never a thing of like, ‘We need to vocalise coming out,'” Megan said to BBC Sport. “What we’re about is just being authentic and being true to who we are. You get heterosexual couples posting photos of each other on Instagram and social media. That’s all we’re doing: sharing our life on Instagram.”