Evan Bates and Madison Chock. David Ramos/Getty Photographs
Olympic gold medalists Evan Bates and Madison Chock make the proper pair on and off the ice.
Chock and Bates, who have been first partnered throughout the 2011-2012 determine skating season, began courting in 2017.
“We simply actually fell in love on the ice and grew nearer collectively,” Bates solely advised Us Weekly in February 2018, noting that he had a crush on Chock after they have been teenagers. “I like her character. I 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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“After we’re coaching, we form of lead sort of quiet lives,” he advised Us. “We keep residence 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 get pleasure from 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 time out over time, it’s important to be in love with the method. That’s one thing that we’ve achieved and we nonetheless have these emotions.”
Preserve scrolling for Chock and Bates’ cool-as-ice relationship timeline:
2011
The pair have been first partnered throughout 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 “received on very 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 canine 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’ve very nice canine. They’re wonderful!”
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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 workforce throughout the match 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 Last title in December 2023, one month earlier than formally changing into Olympic gold medalists.
Chock, Bates and the remainder of Staff USA had initially completed in second behind the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) throughout the workforce determine skating occasion. After a prolonged investigation, ROC star athlete Kamila Valieva was disqualified for doping, main Staff USA to take residence the gold as a substitute.
“It’s been very sudden,” Chock stated on the Right now present throughout an interview with Bates and their teammates. “We simply didn’t have a lot info and other people 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.”
