Koleto became a Japanese citizen in 2020, and legally adopted name Takeru Komatsubara. Other figure skaters:Ī quick trip away from team USA: Japanese ice dancers Misato Komatsubara and Tim Koleto are together-they married in 2017. We've always been about equality and showing two amazing athletes coming together to create something beautiful," LeDuc says. "Ashley and I are just different in that way we've never done a romantic story and we've never been a romantic pair. They choose not to portray romantic stories with their skates, instead wanting to emphasize two strong athletes, skating in unison. LeDuc identifies as gay, and Cain-Gribble, at 5'6", is taller than most women in figure skating. Even when we teamed up, they had a lot of things to say about my body, or about Timothy's sexuality. "For a long time, Timothy and I didn't see ourselves represented, and so we didn't quite feel like we belonged," Cain-Gribble, 26, told CNN Sport."And for a long time, people had things to say about us. The duo have been skating together since 2016. LeDuc, 31, made history this Olympics as the first openly non-binary athlete to compete at the Games. Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc BakerĪshley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc are also very much not dating. They have said this Olympics will be their last. Hubbell, 30, and Donohue, 31, are now both dating other ice dancers: Hubbell is engaged to Spanish ice dancer Adrian Diaz and Donohue is dating Australian ice dancer Chantelle Kerry. "The more romantic ways no longer exist, but it’s something that goes kind of beyond an everyday expression of emotion or even a cognizant feeling."
"We have this innate back-of-the-mind care for each other and love for each other that has grown in some ways," Donohue adds. But the love made it so we couldn’t say goodbye." "A lot of people are like, 'Oh it’s so amazing that you guys broke up and you still skated together.' But it wasn’t a choice for us," Hubbell told USA Today. The pair have been skating together since 2011, and started dating around the same time, but broke up after two and a half years.
Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue did date, but they're no longer dating.