Sep 20, 2026 · 54 min · 14 segments
Olympic ice dancers Madison Chock & Evan Bates join Delaney & Hadley to tell the story of how they went from athletic partners to spouses. Madison shares her initial reaction to learning that Evan had…
Evan BatesGuest
Delaney RobertsonHost
Hadley RobertsonHostHost CommentaryHostAnd that is something that we learn to highlight and put our relationship first in skating and put skating second.
So do you try like when you come home from the skating rink to like not talk about work and talk about like each other make it more like professional life personal life or is that just like not possible? I
mean not really we would always kind of talk about skating because it's just what we do it's our passion we want to get better we're on the same page we have the same goals and so In order to accomplish those goals, we talk about it.
And I think also that ended up benefiting us because we had that time together.
Like most times you finish training and you and your partner go your separate ways.
But since we were always together, we had the opportunity to like kind of just bounce ideas off each other as they came.
it was it's a shared passion like it's our art and it's something that we get to do together so it's it was never it didn't feel like work ever it still doesn't it feels like getting to collaborate with your best friend
think it's interesting though when you do work as a duo like you have to like separate what your relationship with the person is like familially from like what they they are at work
like for example like if we were just like co-workers and i didn't know her I would feel like uncomfortable giving feedback, probably to the point where like it's detrimental.
But if you're like a sister and you're annoyed about something, you would just scream at her.
And that is something that we learn to highlight and put our relationship first in skating and put skating second.
So do you try like when you come home from the skating rink to like not talk about work and talk about like each other make it more like professional life personal life or is that just like not possible? I
mean not really we would always kind of talk about skating because it's just what we do it's our passion we want to get better we're on the same page we have the same goals and so In order to accomplish those goals, we talk about it.
And I think also that ended up benefiting us because we had that time together.
Like most times you finish training and you and your partner go your separate ways.
But since we were always together, we had the opportunity to like kind of just bounce ideas off each other as they came.
it was it's a shared passion like it's our art and it's something that we get to do together so it's it was never it didn't feel like work ever it still doesn't it feels like getting to collaborate with your best friend
think it's interesting though when you do work as a duo like you have to like separate what your relationship with the person is like familially from like what they they are at work
like for example like if we were just like co-workers and i didn't know her I would feel like uncomfortable giving feedback, probably to the point where like it's detrimental.
But if you're like a sister and you're annoyed about something, you would just scream at her.
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