CORTINA d'AMPEZZO, Italy — Breezy Johnson is multi-talented.
In addition to skiing really, really well, the newly minted Olympic downhill champion has gotten really, really good at knitting. She makes a new headband or hat to wear at each race, and she knit hats for many of her family and friends to wear at the Milano Cortina Olympics.
That includes her now fiancé Connor Watkins, who was wearing one of Johnson's creations Thursday, Feb. 12, when he proposed following the super-G.
Johnson originally learned to knit from her mother. But she got more into it when she got injured ahead of the Beijing Olympics and had time to kill.
"I started knitting some headbands for myself. I started watching some YouTube videos of fun knitting stitches and things like that, and then started incorporating those," Johnson told USA TODAY Sports. "Then, it was shortly after I came back from my injuries that I started doing really well. So then it just became a superstition."
