Madison Chock

During the Team Figure Skating Event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates attracted a lot of attention for their ...

Now, we’re together on and off the ice and it makes it even more powerful. Skating together is something that we love doing, and we love doing it together. During the Team Figure Skating Event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates attracted a lot of attention for their chemistry and dramatic performance in the rink.

Two American ice dancing pairs are within striking distance after the first half of their Olympic competition, but they have some ground to make up for the ...

“And once we were in the air, you know, everything disappeared and there was just, you know, momentum.” With sharp edges and crisp turns, Papadakis and Cizeron seemed to float across the ice of the historic Capital Indoor Stadium, finally breaking through what had been some stingy scoring. The Russians scored 84.09, just off their season best set at the European championships, to their pop mashup of The Backstreet Boys, Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber. That could eventually be upgraded to gold depending on the outcome of a Russian doping inquiry. “We need to look at the protocol and see where we lost some levels. Medals will be on the line Monday in the free dance.

"We are so lucky because we have this thing that we share, this ice dance that's our own little corner of the universe," Bates tells PEOPLE of competing ...

"We're proud that we're pushing the sport forward in certain ways and standing out from the crowd," Bates says. "There was a missing piece that we wanted to explore and we wanted to really just be the best that we could possibly be and push ourselves because we're students of the sport. And that will probably include a wedding." "And so that's been really helpful for our relationship off the ice to have learned those lessons and to be able to deal with that kind of stress and pressure and excitement." And I'm like, 'How did that happen?' I don't feel like I'm just as seasoned as that makes me sound." "And we've worked a lot on kind of–" "And it's something that we together get to pour everything into. "We are so lucky because we have this thing that we share, this ice dance that's our own little corner of the universe," he says. Instead of allowing themselves one vacation a year, for example, they've started seeking out multiple breaks and found "a lot of refreshment" from that, Bates says. Adds Chock: "When you're skating together, you don't always talk and you don't always want to talk when you're training. And that's really helpful for when we want to save our energy and just pour everything into our training." "That has always been the case, even before we were dating," Bates says of their bond.