Olympic weddings
Published:Sunday | August 12, 2012 | 12:00 AM
Love is in the air during the 2012 London Games, it seems, and it brings a whole new meaning to Olympic rings.
The question, 'will you marry me?' has been popped an estimated 25 times under the large, multi-coloured rings inside Olympic Park.
Bram Lobeek, from Utrecht in the Netherlands, finally found the moment he had been looking for all year.
After watching the Dutch men's hockey team beat South Korea this week, he convinced his reluctant girlfriend of almost 10 years to line up for a photo by the rings.
He didn't explain his motive - and fretted as she started to look bored.
His girlfriend, Hetty van der Pennen, recalled wondering why she was wasting her time there.
"So I was standing and I said 'what is he doing?' and he was pointing at the Olympic rings and he said 'well, these are yours'," she said last Friday.
"I said: 'What?' Then he went down on his knees."