Beloved Australian champion Scotty James and celebrity wife Chloe Stroll are celebrating the safe arrival of their first child.
James has won two Olympic snowboarding medals and a host of other world titles, but all the individual achievements will pale in comparison to becoming a dad for the first time.
The 30-year-old and his famous wife shared the news via a joint Instagram post.
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It was a simple photo of the happy couple’s hands, with baby Leo gripping onto Chloe’s finger.
“Leo Harry James,” they captioned the post.
James and Stroll — a well-known singer-songwriter and daughter of Formula One billionaire, Lawrence Stroll — were married in May last year.
Their post was quickly flooded with likes and comments from the sporting world and TV personalities.
Australian Olympic superstar Ariarne Titmus liked the post, while AFL great turned radio star Brendan Fevola wrote “congratulations mate”.
F1 superstars Oscar Piastri and Fernando Alonso also passed on their congratulations.
Channel 7 presenter Johanna Griggs clapped the happy family, while British TV presenter Natalie Pinkham wrote: “Oh wow 😍huge love and congratulations. How wonderful.”
Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris said, “Congratulations you two!”
And Patrick Schwarznegger — the son of Hollywood icon Arnold — also left a comment.
James and Stroll married in a lavish Italian wedding last year, after they were introduced in 2019 by Chloe’s brother and F1 driver Lance.
At the time, Lance was so convinced by the match that he told his sibling Scotty was “the guy you’re going to marry”.
James told Sunrise in 2022 that Chloe was the “woman of my dreams”, and joked that asking her father if he could marry his daughter was great mental training for the Winter Olympics.
“There’s no more pressure than asking Chloe’s dad for her hand in marriage,” he said.
“That was a lot of pressure.”
James won silver in the halfpipe in the 2022 Olympics, improving on his bronze from four years earlier.
He will be hoping to complete the set with gold at the 2026 Games in Italy.