Olympic diver Greg Louganis announced on Monday that he and his partner Johnny Chaillot are now engaged.
The 53-year-old winner of five Olypmic medals who was recently a head coach on a celebrity diving competition called "Splash" told People Magazine that he and his paralegal fiance will be joined together in matrimony this fall.
"This is what the universe had in store for both of us," he said.
Louganis swept the 3-meter and 10-meter competitions in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic games, in addition to his five world championships and nearly 50 national titles, the Los Angeles Times reported.
He also game out as a gay, HIV positive man in 1995 on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
In March, Louganis revealed to Logo Online's the Backlot that despite the fact that he and Johnny Chaillot were in a relationship for almost a year, he had no desire for children.
"I don't want to be an older parent," he said. "Even though my life is pretty active I know what it was like to have an older father. I'll be the fun uncle. I think that's good enough for me."
On his relationship with 52-year-old Chaillot, Louganis kept it very real.
"When we first got together it was like, 'We look like brothers. He has the same skin. The same skin tone, everything. I was like, 'This feels really narcissistic.' But I also realize the more I fall in love with him the more I fall in love with myself. I always grew up hearing, 'Oh, your soul mate this and that. And I didn't think it existed. I'm having second thoughts about that."
Adding to Louganis' exciting news comes another nugget: he will be inducted into the Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame on August 2 in Chicago as one of the first groups of outstanding LGBT sports players.
