Winter Olympics 2026: At last, Madison Chock and Evan Bates have their medal, an ice dance silver
MILAN — After 15 years of partnership and two years of marriage, after so many early mornings and late nights of work, after four Olympics together, Madison Chock and Evan Bates at long last have their own ice dancing medal.
Chock and Bates won silver in Wednesday night’s ice dancing event, bringing home a final combined score of 224.39. France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron claimed gold with a score of 225.82, while Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirer took bronze with a score of 217.74.
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While Chock and Bates have been a known Olympic quantity for well over a decade, they’ve only ascended to the top of the ice dance mountain since Beijing. They’re the reigning and three-time World and Grand Prix Final champions, the reigning and seven-time U.S. champions. They’ve won gold medals twice as members of the U.S. team, most recently this past Sunday. But until Wednesday night, they’d never claimed their own medals.
Chock and Bates skated 19th of 20 teams on Wednesday night, after finishing less than a point behind Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron in the short program. Their toreador-inspired skate to Ramin Djawadi’s cover of “Paint It, Black” thrilled the substantial number of American fans in attendance at Assago Ice Skating Arena.
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A bit further down the standings, four Americans making their Olympic debuts notched respectable finishes.
Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko, skating to selections from “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer,” finished with a combined score of 197.62 to end the Olympics ranked 11th. Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik, skating to Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Op. 64, had a combined score of 206.72 and finished fifth.
