Australian swim king Kyle Chalmers has done little to quell rumours of a fledging romance with Norwegian pool star Ingeborg Løyning.
The Adelaide-based pair, who were first linked in June, all but confirmed the romance rumours on Thursday after they each uploaded a photo collage gallery to Instagram containing a very cosy image.
The photo showed Chalmers, 25, and Løyning, 22, looking like a couple as they posed arm-in-arm while taking a dog for a walk.
Another image showed Løyning and Chalmers enjoying an outdoor meal together.
Chalmers promptly reposted the collage, but chose not to add his own caption.
Australian swim king Kyle Chalmers, 25, (left) has done little to quell rumours of a fledging romance with Norwegian pool star Ingeborg Løyning, 22, (right)
Back in June, Chalmers sent the rumour mill alight after he shared an Instagram photo of the glamorous blonde posing alongside a golden retriever named Lenny.
‘Thanks for dinner @golden_lenny,’ he wrote over the photo, tagging the dog’s account.
The post was re-posted by Ingeborg, who shared the image alongside a heart emoji.
On Thursday, the Adelaide-based pair each uploaded a photo collage gallery to Instagram containing a very cosy image of themselves cuddling (top left) and a photo of them dining together (bottom right)
Back in June, Chalmers sent the rumour mill alight after he shared an Instagram photo of the glamorous blonde posing alongside a golden retriever named Lenny
It comes after Chalmers revealed he almost quit swimming amid the infamous love triangle saga that rocked the Australian team last year.
Chalmers was in the eye of a media storm over his involvement in a love triangle with ex-girlfriend Emma McKeon and fellow swimmer Cody Simpson.
The 25-year-old’s world championships backflip – in which he U-turned on his decision to skip Budapest, thereby denying Simpson a place on the team – resulted in allegations that his call was not purely based on swimming.
‘Thanks for dinner @golden_lenny,’ he wrote over the photo. The post was re-posted by Ingeborg, who shared the image alongside a heart emoji
The story did not go away during the Commonwealth Games, where all three swimmers competed for Australia in Birmingham, and Chalmers says he spent the hours leading up to his 100m freestyle race crying in his hotel room.
‘It is a sport that I love.’ he told A Current Affair. ‘But I was in a very, very dark place.
‘Reflecting on that. I was asking myself “why am I actually doing this? Why?”
Chalmers made headlines last year when he was caught in a ‘love triangle’ with his ex Emma McKeon (left) and singer Cody Simpson (right).
‘Especially last year, I think rock bottom, was probably, like, alone at the Commonwealth Games. Just being in my room completely preparing for the final, I was crying in my room.
‘We’re in a university so a pretty old sort of building. “What am I, what am I here for?”‘
Chalmers previously revealed that he had written a retirement statement in the midst of his struggles, and wanted to play local footy in Australia instead.
The story did not go away during the Commonwealth Games, where all three swimmers competed for Australia in Birmingham, and Chalmers says he spent the hours leading up to his 100m freestyle race crying in his hotel room
‘It was very, very stressful,’ Chalmers told the Soda Room podcast. ‘I was going to say, now I’m done – I’m going to stay in Port Lincoln now and play country footy.’
He added that any suggestion that he kept Simpson out of the team for Budapest was ‘absolute c**p’ but it wasn’t until the Commonwealth Games where he reached an all-time low.
‘We just broke the Commonwealth record and we won gold … and they’ve just teed off,’ he says. ‘Not one question about swimming … It was all complete nonsense, this so-called feud. There was no feud whatsoever.’
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