Olympic gold medalists Evan Bates and Madison Chock make the perfect pair on and off the ice. Chock and Bates, who were first partnered during the 2011-2012 figure skating season, started dating in 2017. “We just really fell in love on the ice and grew closer together,” Bates exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2018, noting that he had a crush on Chock when they were teens.
“I love her personality. I love her zest for life.” Bates and Chock have continued to go for the gold at the Olympic games , which impacts their romance.
“When we’re training, we sort of lead kind of quiet lives,” he told Us . “We stay home a lot and we go to bed early!” After five years together, Bates proposed in June 2022 during a vacation in Thailand. While preparing for their 2024 wedding, they still enjoy skating together in competitions.
“We still love what we do and we enjoy the process,” Chock gushed to Olympics.com in 2023. “Having to put in the work day in and day out over the years, you have to be in love with the process.
That’s something that we’ve done and we still have those feelings.” Keep scrolling for Chock and Bates’ cool-as-ice relationship timeline: The pair were first partnered during the 2011 season. (Bates previously placed 11th at the 2010 Olympics with then-partner Emily Samuelson.
) Years later, Chock gushed to NBC Sports that she and Bates “got on really well” even before they competed together, gushing that they had “good chemistry right.