Winter Olympics ice dance: How to watch Chock and Bates free dance for free
After a major upset in the rhythm dance, its time for the free dance — the second component of the Olympics ice dance event that decides who goes home with medals around their necks.Gold medal favorites Madison Chock and Evan Bates from Team USA currently sit in second, just four-tenths of a point behind the French team of Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron.Chock and Bates entered the individual competition as the three-time defending world champions with two Olympics team event gold medals to their names.They will skate in the penultimate slot today in hopes that their free dance pulls them ahead of the French team.
Though Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron are a new pair with less than one year of skating together, the pair with “sinister energy,” according to retired figure skater Adam Rippon, are no stranger to the Olympics.Cizeron is the reigning gold medalist with his former partner, Gabriella Papadakis, while Fournier Beaudry split with her former skating partner (and current boyfriend) after he was banned from the sport following a sexual assault accusation.Two more of Team USA’s ice dance pairs also qualified for the individual event and finished within the top 20 to continue onto today’s free dance.
Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko will go 10th after finishing 11th and Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik will start 15th after finishing sixth.Today, Feb.11, is the final day of the Olympics 2026 ice dance competition.
The free dance is scheduled to begin at 1:15 p.m.ET on USA before moving over to NBC at 2:15 p.m..If you don’t have cable, you’ll need a live TV streaming service to stream the Olympics for free.DIRECTV is our favorite service for watching TV live for free — it has a five-day free trial and there are a ton of options for plans that include USA Network and NBC (and every other channel you’ll need for the Olympics), starting at $49.99/month.You can also catch every minute of the Olympics with a subscription to...