10 Olympic power couples competing together in Beijing
US ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates have been dating since 2017.
Kim Meylemans of Belgium and Nicole Silveira of Brazil both compete as skeleton sliders.
Mikaela Shiffrin of the US and Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde support each other in alpine skiing.
Alpine skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde "share in each other's successes and also disappointments," she told NBC.
Shiffrin competes for Team USA, while Kilde is a member of Norway's Olympic team.
They had known each other for years, then began dating after Kilde reached out following the tragic death of Shiffrin's father in 2020.
"He never ever stopped being nice and friendly but also always very respectful, especially because at some points I was in a relationship and he had a couple relationships as well over that time frame," Shiffrin told NBC. "Last year he got in touch with me again with a really nice and supportive message to my family once I started racing again after my dad's accident and this time we just never stopped chatting."
Misato Komatsubara and Tim Koleto of Team Japan met through skating together and married in 2017.
Komatsubara and Koleto helped Japan win a team bronze medal in Beijing with their free dance.
"When Misato and I met, it was a crossroads of life for both of us ... we were in similar places in our lives that made our communication easy and made the transition of being an on-ice couple to being an off-ice couple both natural and gradual," Koleto said in an interview with Edges of Glory. "We also have our fair share of odd interests and hobbies that sprinkle our relationship with all kinds of fun experiences."
Snowboarders Hailey Langland and Red Gerard began dating shortly before the 2018 Olympics, and they are returning for their second Games as a couple.
Langland and Gerard met when they were 12 years old, and they began dating at 17 just weeks before the Olympics in Pyeongchang.
"I think everyone but me saw it," Langland told ESPN earlier this year. "I'd say, 'No, we're too young. We're too good of friends.' But it made sense. Even though we spend every single day together, I don't think we get tired of one another. He's my favorite person to be around."
US ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates knew each other for years before becoming a couple — they even went on a few dates as teenagers.
Chock and Bates have been dating since 2017, according to Time. This is their third Olympics skating together, and their second as a couple.
"We were always having a blast and we were laughing all the time and just enjoying our time together," Bates told Inside Edition in 2018. "I think that friendship and that base was what sort of led to the romance."
On February 6, Chock and Bates helped secure a team silver medal with their free dance set to a Daft Punk medley.
American luge racer Emily Sweeney's longtime boyfriend is fellow luger Dominik Fischnaller of Italy.
The two luge racers have been together for years and have shared many adorable Instagram snapshots of their time together. After Sweeney failed to qualify for the 2014 Olympics, Fischnaller brought her a cup of her favorite ice cream as consolation.
So far in Beijing, Fischnaller has won a bronze medal in the men's singles luge.
Russian Olympic Committee figure skaters Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov took home a team silver medal in 2018 and are back for more in Beijing.
Tarasova and Morozov have been skating together since 2012.
In a 2014 interview with Golden Skate, Morozov said that Tarasova is "the best girl, easygoing, good natured, sweet, and amicable."
Kim Meylemans of Belgium and Nicole Silveira of Brazil compete alongside each other as skeleton sliders.
Meylemans and Silveira met three years ago at the World Cup, and they took the step of becoming Instagram official in 2021.
"I think from the beginning I wasn't 100 percent sure that's who I was and what I wanted," Silveira told Today earlier this year. "So it took me a while to finally be OK with it, I guess. So for a moment there, it was me hiding a lot of who I was and hiding Kim essentially from a lot of people and the closest people that I knew of us. But making that post was really, I think was the biggest weight off my shoulders."
Austrian figure skaters Miriam Ziegler and Severin Kiefer are partners both on and off the ice.
This is their third Olympics skating together.
"Miriam and I spend close to 24 hours a day together and quite honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way," Kiefer told the figure-skating blog SkateGuard1 in 2015.
Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman, an engaged couple, are both seconds for Canada's Olympic curling team.
Gallant and Peterman met when they played on the same team at the 2016 Canadian mixed-doubles curling championship.
"From there we became very good friends and, shortly thereafter, we started dating,'' Gallant told Saltwire in 2021. "It was really curling that brought us together. It's been that way ever since.''
Canadian women's hockey player Blayre Turnbull and her fiancé, bobsledder Ryan Sommer, reunited after three months apart at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
Turnbull and Sommer announced their engagement in April. Their training schedules and COVID-19 protocols leading up to the Beijing Olympics kept them apart for three months.
"Name a cooler place to be reunited with your fiancé after spending the last 3 months apart …. I'll wait," Turnbull captioned a photo with Sommer on Instagram.
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