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[caption id="attachment_20431" align="alignnone" width="580"] He Zi gets proposed by her boyfriend on Olympic podium. File Pic[/caption] Internet Desk: China’s ace woman diver He Zi had just collected her silver medal at the Rio Olympics but her boyfriend and teammate Qin Kai, in front of a global TV audience, sprang a surprise by going down on one knee and proposing with a diamond ring, marking the second marriage proposal at the ongoing Games.

Just moments after receiving her silver medal in Sunday’s 3-meter springboard event, 25-year-old He was asked to take a very different kind of plunge by Qin, a fellow Olympic diver.

Qin, 30, who bent low on one knee by the podium before offering up a box containing a diamond engagement ring. He did not appear to be expecting a proposal straight after winning a silver medal. Qin, a bronze medallist in the men’s synchronized 3-meter springboard, also gave his wife to-be a red rose encased in glass.

It’s the second engagement to take place at a Rio Games venue, following that of Brazilian rugby player Isadora Cerullo and girlfriend Marjorie Enya last Monday. But there was no ring on that occasion, as Enya used a gold ribbon to tie around Cerullo’s finger.