Figure Skating - Team CHOCK Madison / BATES Evan

TEAMING UP
Announced their partnership in July 2011. (usfigureskatingfanzone.com)

OLYMPIC GAMES
Finished fourth at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

COUPLE OFF THE ICE
Started dating a while after teaming up on the ice. “When we first got together in 2011, we were not physically a great match. I think, especially then, you didn’t see so many teams with a big height difference and we were asked a lot of questions at first. I think that the reason why we chose each other was because we liked each other. We really had a great chemistry. We just had a blast on the ice together during our tryout. I feel like that is sort of the foundation of our partnership now, even more so, that we are a couple. I think that the relationship is just the strongest part of our partnership." (Bates, isu.org)

INJURIES
Chock: Suffered from chipped bones in her right ankle during the 2017/18 season and had surgery in April 2018. She was able to resume full-time practice only in December 2018. (isu.org)
Bates: Lacerated his Achilles tendon in a practice accident with former partner Emily Samuelson in September 2010. (espn.com)

COACHING CHANGE
They changed coaches and moved to Montreal, QC in April 2018. “We knew that we wanted to continue skating after having a really disappointing Olympic Games [in 2018] and feeling like our skating was plateauing a bit and we weren’t getting the results that we wanted. We felt like we were so close for many seasons of getting back to where we were in 2015/16. We just couldn’t get over the, kind of, hump. So we felt like we needed this change in order to grow – you need to step outside of your comfort zone in order to really push yourself. And for us, I think, what we really wanted was to train every day with the best teams in the World – our top competitors – the teams who were beating us at Olympics and Worlds." (Bates, isu.org)

SUCCESS WITH FORMER PARTNERS
Both won the ISU World Junior Championships: Chock in 2009 (with Greg Zuerlein); Bates in 2008 (with Emily Samuelson).

COACHES
Coaches Marie-France Dubreuil/Patrice Lauzon (CAN) are the 2006 and 2007 ISU World silver ice dance medallists, and two-time Olympians (2002, 2006 were forced to withdraw due to injury).

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