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Bryan Armen Graham at the Milano Ice Skating Arena

Chock and Bates post world-best score as Olympic figure skating gets under way

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Evan Bates and Madison Chock skate during the first day of the Olympic figure skating team event.
Three-time world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates powered the US in the first day of the figure skating team event. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

The United States seized early control of the Olympic figure skating team event after Friday’s opening day on the southern outskirts of Milan, powered by a world’s best score this season from Madison Chock and Evan Bates.

The three-time world champions, together on skates since 2011 and married since 2024, set the marker with 91.06 points for their program to music by The Guess Who and Lenny Kravitz, earning the maximum 10 points for an American team entering the Winter Games on a tailwind of hype.
Chock and Bates, nearly unbeatable since finishing fourth in the individual ice dance event at the Beijing Games four years ago, skated with the precision and polish that have defined their rise to the top of the sport.

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