Olympic legend Greg Louganis is engaged to Johnny Chaillot and confirmed his impending fall nuptials to PEOPLE on Monday.

The diving champion told the publication that he found in Chaillot, 52, someone that he can spend the rest of his life with. Chaillot is a paralegal employed by the Los Angeles-based law firm Loeb & Loeb, in the Trust and Estates Litigation Department.

"I finally met my soul mate - the more I fall in love with Johnny, the more I fall in love with myself. This is what the universe had in store for both of us," Louganis, 53, said.

Louganis became part of Olympic lore and blazed a trail for other divers for his skill and technique. He remains the only male to sweep both the 3-meter and 10-meter diving events in consecutive Olympic Games, first in 1984 in Los Angeles and then in Seoul in 1988. He earned five Olympic medals, five World Championship titles and 47 national titles through the course of his career.

Louganis, widely regarded as the best diver of all time, also became the face of HIV. In 1988 he was diagnosed with HIV six months before the Olympics but did not divulge the information. In 1994, he announced that he was gay and lost every corporate sponsorship except one.

In March 1996 he published his best-selling autobiography Breaking the Surface, which was later turned into the Showtime movie, Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story. Mario Lopez played the Olympian.

In August 2012, Louganis spoke with Piers Morgan about living with the disease and how he did not believe he would live to see 30. He also opened up about being such a high profile representation of HIV to a new generation.

"Well it's a double-edged sword, you know, because now young kids are seeing us and they're saying well "they're alive, thriving" and all that," he said. "But I wouldn't wish my drug regiment on anyone. I mean the things I've been through are pretty devastating.

Watch Louganis discuss being openly gay and HIV positive to Oprah Winfrey in 1995.

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