Chock and Bates took home their second medal of the 2026 Games in ice dance on Feb. 11
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NEED TO KNOW
- Madison Chock and Evan Bates won silver in ice dance at the 2026 Winter Olympics
- The win marks the married couple’s second medal of the Games, and third in their career
- They fell just 1.43 shy of beating Team France
Madison Chock and Evan Bates are Olympics medalists three times over!
Chock, 33, and Bates, 36, finished in second place in ice dance at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan on Feb. 11 — a (relatively) happy ending for the pair after they just missed the podium with a fourth-place finish in the event in Beijing in 2022.
The married couple — who tied the knot in June 2024 — fell short to France's Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron, who beat their score of 224.39 with a final total of 225.82.
Chock and Bates secured their second-place finish with a free dance to “Paint it Black,” and nailed a number of elements including synchronized twizzles, rotational lift and choreographic sliding movement.
The performance came two days after their Lenny Kravitz-set rhythm dance, which put them in second place behind Beaudry and Cizeron heading into the final night. Canadians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier came in third, with 217.74 points total.
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The silver is their first individual Olympic medal of their careers, and their second medal of the 2026 Games; they shared their most recent gold win with Ilia Malinin, Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu, Danny O’Shea and Ellie Kam in the team event.
“We had so much fun,” Chock said on Feb. 9 of performing in the rhythm dance portion of the team event with Bates, whom she married in 2024. “We felt really comfortable when we got out on the ice tonight, as comfortable as you can be when you’re performing and in competition mode… We’re really happy with how we performed, and we’re going to bring that feeling forward.”
Asked whether they had any changes planned for the free dance, Chock said the pair was “locked in.”
“We know ourselves, we know our routine, and we got this,” she said.
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Bates, meanwhile, discussed his health in a press conference before he competed, saying there’s “mileage on the body” at 36 years old, but nothing he can’t handle.
“We've been really smart and intentional with our training this year, limiting the number of reps on things like lifts that could potentially cause a problem,” he said. ““We have found a great balance between pushing and prioritizing recovery and health. We're feeling good heading into the Games.”
The couple made their Olympics debut in 2014, though this year’s Games marks their first as a married couple.
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