
Evan Bates and Madison Chock.
David Ramos/Getty ImagesOlympic medalists Evan Bates and Madison Chock Make the perfect couple on and outside the ice.
Chock and Bates, who first partnered during the 2011-2012 figure skating season, began to meet in 2017.
“We just really fell in love with the ice and got closer,” Bates exclusively US Weekly In February 2018, noting that he was in love with Chock when they were teenagers. “I love her personality. I love her thirst for life. “
Bates and Chock continued to look for gold At the Olympic GamesWhich affects their romance.
“When we train, we lead a peaceful life,” he said usS “We stay a lot at home and go to bed early!”
After five years together, Bates proposed in June 2022 During a vacation in Thailand. As they prepare for their wedding in 2024, they are still glad to skate together in competitions.
“We still love what we do and we enjoy the process,” Chock said Olympics.com In 2023, “As you have to work day after day, you must be in love with the process. This is something we have done and we still have these feelings. “
Continue to scroll for the chronology of the relationship between Chok and Bates:
2011
The couple partnered for the first time in the 2011 season (before that Bates was ranked 11th at the 2010 Olympics with their then partner Emily Samuelson.)
Years later Chok broke out Nbc sport That she and Bates “understand each other very well”, even before they compete together, gleaming that they have “good chemistry from the beginning.”
2017
Against the backdrop of the peaks of their career, Bates and Chock began to meet.

2018
They adopted two poodles together, Stella and Henry.
“Our dogs look like us! My dog ​​is blond and has curly hair, her dog is black and has really clear eyebrows, “Bates joke with us That February. “We have really nice dogs. They are incredible! “
February 2022
Chok and Bates competed together at the 2014 Olympics, 2018 and 2022. They were designated as an ice skating team for 2022 during the Beijing tournament.

June 2022
“I left my home with my friend, returned with my fiancé! 🥰 services =“She wrote via Instagram, confirming that Bates had asked the question.
January 2024
They won their first final title from the Grand Prix in December 2023, one month before they formally become a gold Olympic medalists.
Chok, Bates and the rest of the US team had initially finished second after the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) during the figure skating team. After a prolonged investigation, ROC Star Athlete Kyamil Valiyev He was disqualified for doping, which led the US team to take gold instead.
“It was very unexpected,” Chock said to Today show During an interview with Bates and their teammates. “We just didn’t have much information and people always asked us. … I did not realize how much I weighed me, and probably to all of us, until we understood (we understood) the news. I felt like a weight lifted to feel this closure of the Beijing Games. “
June 2024
Bates and Chock got married on June 20 in the native of the bride Hawaii, later told people For the traditions of the ceremony.
“The Leia is the unity and the unification of individual elements to make a whole greater than the sum of its parts,” Chock said. “In marriage, you get together as individuals to create a partnership together.”
January 2025
Chock and Bates won their sixth US Championship on Ice Dance on January 24, equalizing the record for the most victories on an American team with retired skaters Meryl Davis and Charlie WhiteS