Evan Bates and Madison Chock. David Ramos/Getty Photographs
Olympic gold medalists Evan Bates and Madison Chock make the right pair on and off the ice.
Chock and Bates, who have been first partnered in the course of the 2011-2012 determine skating season, began courting in 2017.
“We simply actually fell in love on the ice and grew nearer collectively,” Bates exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2018, noting that he had a crush on Chock once they have been teenagers. “I really like her character. I really like her zest for all times.”
Bates and Chock have continued to go for the gold at the Olympic games, which impacts their romance.
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“After we’re coaching, we type of lead sort of quiet lives,” he advised Us. “We keep dwelling loads and we go to mattress early!”
After 5 years collectively, Bates proposed in June 2022 throughout a trip in Thailand. Whereas making ready for his or her 2024 wedding ceremony, they nonetheless take pleasure in skating collectively in competitions.
“We nonetheless love what we do and we benefit from the course of,” Chock gushed to Olympics.com in 2023. “Having to place within the work day in and day trip over time, it’s important to be in love with the method. That’s one thing that we’ve carried out and we nonetheless have these emotions.”
Maintain scrolling for Chock and Bates’ cool-as-ice relationship timeline:
2011
The pair have been first partnered in the course of the 2011 season. (Bates beforehand positioned eleventh on the 2010 Olympics with then-partner Emily Samuelson.)
Years later, Chock gushed to NBC Sports that she and Bates “bought on rather well” even earlier than they competed collectively, gushing that they’d “good chemistry proper from the beginning.”
2017
Amid their profession highs, Bates and Chock began courting.
2018
They adopted two toy poodles collectively, Stella and Henry.
“Our canines appear to be us! My canine is blonde and has curly hair, her canine is black and has, like, actually distinct eyebrows,” Bates joked to Us that February. “We now have very nice canines. They’re superb!”
Making it to the Olympics is a feat that numerous athletes dream of their total lives. After years of blood, sweat and tears, taking part in essentially the most prestigious athletic occasion on this planet is a once-in-a-lifetime second. Some athletes compete one time within the Olympic Video games and dangle up their hats, stepping gracefully into retirement. […]
February 2022
Chock and Bates competed collectively on the Olympic Video games in 2014, 2018 and 2022. They have been named co-captains of the 2022 ice skating staff in the course of the match in Beijing.
June 2022
“Left dwelling with my boyfriend, coming again with my fiancé! 🥰❤️❤️❤️,” she wrote through Instagram, confirming Bates had popped the query.
January 2024
They gained their first Grand Prix Last title in December 2023, one month earlier than formally turning into Olympic gold medalists.
Chock, Bates and the remainder of Workforce USA had initially completed in second behind the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in the course of the staff determine skating occasion. After a prolonged investigation, ROC star athlete Kamila Valieva was disqualified for doping, main Workforce USA to take dwelling the gold as a substitute.
“It’s been very surprising,” Chock stated on the Today show throughout an interview with Bates and their teammates. “We simply didn’t have a lot info and folks would all the time ask us. … I didn’t notice how a lot had been weighing on me, and doubtless, weighing on all of us, till we discovered [out] the information. It nearly felt like a weight had been lifted to only really feel this closure from the Beijing video games.”
June 2024
Bates and Chock wed on June 20 within the bride’s native Hawaii, later telling People concerning the ceremony’s traditions.
“The leis characterize unity and the approaching collectively of separate components to make an entire better than the sum of its components,” Chock stated. “In marriage, you come collectively as people to create a partnership collectively.”
January 2025
Chock and Bates gained their sixth U.S. ice dancing championship on January 24, tying the file for many wins by an American staff with retired skaters Meryl Davis and Charlie White.
