Evan Bates and Madison Chock. David Ramos/Getty Pictures
Olympic gold medalists Evan Bates and Madison Chock make the proper pair on and off the ice.
Chock and Bates, who had been first partnered in the course of the 2011-2012 determine skating season, began relationship in 2017.
“We simply actually fell in love on the ice and grew nearer collectively,” Bates completely informed Us Weekly in February 2018, noting that he had a crush on Chock once they had 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 on the Olympic video games, which impacts their romance.
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“Once we’re coaching, we type of lead sort of quiet lives,” he informed Us. “We keep residence lots 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 marriage 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 through the years, 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.”
Hold scrolling for Chock and Bates’ cool-as-ice relationship timeline:
2011
The pair had 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 activities 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 relationship.
2018
They adopted two toy poodles collectively, Stella and Henry.
“Our canines appear like 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 have now very nice canines. They’re superb!”
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February 2022
Chock and Bates competed collectively on the Olympic Video games in 2014, 2018 and 2022. They had been named co-captains of the 2022 ice skating group in the course of the event in Beijing.
June 2022
“Left residence 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 Remaining title in December 2023, one month earlier than formally changing 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 group determine skating occasion. After a prolonged investigation, ROC star athlete Kamila Valieva was disqualified for doping, main Workforce USA to take residence the gold as a substitute.
“It’s been very sudden,” Chock mentioned on the At the moment present 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 simply really feel this closure from the Beijing video games.”
