Inside the Winter Olympians’ Love Lives

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Team USA’s Dating Histories: Inside Shaun White, Mikaela Shiffrin and More Winter Olympians’ Love Lives

Gold medal love! As Team USA’s best athletes compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics, their family members are a few of their greatest followers.

Shaun White, who competed in his last Winter Olympics in February 2022, has been relationship actress Nina Dobrev since 2020. Once White took a spontaneous journey to go to Dobrev on the set of Redeeming Love in South Africa, the X Games medalist knew he discovered love.

“That was actually how we kind of started our relationship,” White completely advised Us Weekly in January 2022. “I was like, ‘All right. Yeah. OK.’ And she [thought], ‘Oh, this guy, he came to play. He’s serious.’ So that’s a thing that we share together. We both enjoy traveling.”

He added at the time: “I wish I could sum it up into one or two things. It’s such a mix of everything. Like our dogs [Maverick and Steve] get along, you know? We have common interests. The way in which we met really kind of strengthened our relationship. And the problems that we do face, they kind of fall away through communication. It’s just been great.”

While the 2022 Olympians’ loves have been unable to assist the athletes in particular person as a result of coronavirus protocols, followers like Dobrev (and her canine!) settled for watching the sports activities occasions on TV.

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“We’ll be anxiously watching from home and cheering him on,” the Vampire Diaries alum advised Us in February 2022. “I’m very, very excited for him. I can’t wait. I taped it, so it’s at the house, and as soon as I get home, I’m gonna sit down with my girlfriends and we’re gonna catch up and watch. … [He’s had] such an incredibly long and amazing, successful run of the sport.”

Dobrev and the Air & Style founder will not be the solely Winter Olympians to seek out love. Evan Bates and ice dance associate Madison Chock — whose joint efficiency helped Team USA clinch a silver medal in the 2022 determine skating workforce occasion — not solely compete collectively, they’ve additionally been relationship since 2017.

“We just really fell in love on the ice and grew closer together,” Bates — who shares two canine with Chock — advised Us in September 2018, noting that he beforehand had a crush on her once they have been youngsters. “I love her personality. I love her zest for life. You can just see it when she walks into a room.”

Chock, for her half, advised Us at the time: “What don’t I love about him? He’s so smart. He’s one of the smartest people I have had the pleasure of knowing.”

Scroll under to seek out out who the Winter Olympians have dated by the years:

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Shaun White

Before the skilled snowboarder discovered love with the Love Hard actress, he was beforehand linked to Westworld’s Summer Spiro, Lindsay Lohan, Bar Refaeli and Sarah Barthel. Us broke the information of White’s romance with Dobrev one month earlier than they made their Instagram debut in May 2020.

“What’s been really great is she can snowboard really well because I’m not the best teacher,” the California native advised Us in October 2021 of the Degrassi alum. “For some reason, I can do it, but I just have a really hard time explaining it how. I remember our first riding day together, I was like, ‘OK, I’m getting ready for her to be falling,’ and I zipped down the mountain and I turned around. I was like, ‘Oh gosh, I hope she’s OK.’ I’m sitting there for a minute and I was like, ‘Uh-oh. Do I unstrap and walk up? Maybe she fell. I’m the horrible guy that just took off.’ She had passed me during my run somehow. Going way faster than me. She was already waiting at the chairlifts.”

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Mikaela Shiffrin

The Colorado native, who beforehand romanced Mathieu Faivre and Brennan Rubie, has been relationship fellow Olympic skier Aleksander Kilde since 2021.


“When you look at this picture you can make up so many statements, meanings and thoughts,” the Norwegian athlete paid tribute to his girlfriend by way of Instagram in February 2022 after her occasion. “Most of you probably look at it saying: ‘she has lost it,’ ‘she can’t handle the pressure’ or ‘what happened?’… Which makes me frustrated, because all I see is a top athlete doing what a top athlete does! It’s a part of the game and it happens. The pressure we all put on individuals in the sports are enormous, so let’s give the same amount of support back. It’s all about the balance and we are just normal human beings!! I love you Kaela.”

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Chloe Kim

Kim has been relationship skateboarder Evan Berle since January 2020. Berle, for his half, honored his love’s February 2022 gold medal victory by way of Instagram: “This girl! It is so hard for me to reflect on the emotions I have been feeling the last 24 hours because I am still in shock! I am so beyond proud of you and all the work you have put in for this moment. … You are the most incredible woman in the world, you inspire me everyday, and I am so honored to be a part of your life. I love you, congratulations! ❤️” 

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Alexa Knierim

The pair’s determine skater — who’s professionally partnered with Brandon Frazier in 2022 — has been married to retired Olympian Chris Knierim since June 2016. Alexa and Chris have been former companions who final competed at the 2018 video games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the place they earned a bronze medal in the workforce occasion. 

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Jessie Diggins

The cross-country skier acquired engaged to longtime boyfriend Wade Poplawski in April 2020.

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Evan Bates

After Bates and Chock turned dance companions shortly earlier than the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, the pair’s bond quickly turned romantic. In addition to skating collectively and relationship, the twosome share two canine who “look like us.”

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Jamie Anderson

Anderson began relationship Tyler Nicholson in 2015 earlier than he popped the query in January 2022. The pair introduced they have been anticipating their first youngster collectively lower than a yr later.

“The most valuable and exquisite I’ve ever felt,” she captioned a pair of images from her maternity shoot in December 2022. “So incredibly grateful.” 

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Madison Hubbell

The Michigan native dated her present ice dance associate, Zachary Donahue, for almost three years. Upon their break up, she moved on with Adrián Díaz, a Spanish ice dancer, in 2014. Hubbell and Díaz introduced their engagement in April 2018.

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John Shuster

The curling medalist is married to Sarah Shuster, with whom he shares two sons.

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Hailey Langland

Langland and fellow snowboarder Red Gerard began relationship forward of their 2018 Olympic debuts.


“It’s incredible, I feel super lucky,” Gerard advised Olympics.com in January 2022. “To snowboard with your girlfriend, your best friend, both of us push each other in really good ways. She’s a lot more mellow, I have a lot more anxiety.”