Japanese Olympic pairs figure skating champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara said Sunday that they are engaged.
The star duo known as "Riku-Ryu," who earned Japan's first pairs Winter Games medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics, announced their retirement from competition in April.
"We'll continue to support each other and move forward together, one step at a time, while always staying true to who we are," Miura, 24, and Kihara, 34, said in an Instagram post.
Reflecting on the many moments that they have shared through "both the happy times and the difficult ones," Miura and Kihara said, "Over time, we became irreplaceable parts of each other's lives."
The pair are now performing in ice shows while pursuing coaching careers after retiring from competitive skating following the last Olympics in February.
Miura, from western Japan's Hyogo Prefecture, and Kihara, a native of Aichi Prefecture in central Japan, came together as a pair in 2019.
