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Chock and Bates take fifth national title
2024 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Ice Dance Madison Chock and Evan Bates secured their fifth U.S. National title in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday. Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko won […]
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A lot of people seemed to be upset that Chock and Bates were skating despite being ill. Lots of tweets about getting others sick. However, they alluded that it could be their last nationals.
“When we were contemplating whether or not we could skate or we should skate, it went through my mind,” Chock said. ‘Well, what if this is our…this is it? What if at the end of the year we feel complete and that’s it and we didn’t get to skate the whole U.S. championships? Would we feel like we missed that, or would we regret that decision? And, I think that would have been a ‘Yes,’ like if this is our last U.S. championships and we want to go out knowing that we skated and we did our best and we fought for it.”
There were many great skates from the other teams. Really looking forward to seeing more from Bratti and Somerville!
What are your thoughts on the Ice Dance event?