Meryl Davis keeps it classy in a chic blue dress at the Figure Skating in Harlem’s Champions in Life Benefit Gala event held at Chelsea Piers in New York City on Tuesday night (May 1).
The 31-year-old Olympic skater took a break from the Stars on Ice tour for the event which honored the medal-winning 2018 US Olympic Figure Skating Team.
Meryl recently opened up to ESPN about Mirai Nagasu and Adam Rippon being on Dancing With The Stars this season and she’s 100% rooting for them.
“I’m on the road [for the 'Stars on Ice' tour] with Mirai Nagasu and Adam Rippon and know they’re both very hard at work,” she shared. “I predict it’ll be one of them at the top.”
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Meryl Davis wows in a lace red dress at the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 38th Annual Salute To Women in Sports Awards Gala on Wednesday night (October 18) in New York City.
Earlier this month, she and partner Charlie White confirmed again that they won’t be returning to competition.
“I think it’s pretty closed,” Meryl said. “We’re not at home, eating bonbons, just figuring out what to do.”
Charlie adds that the two are working as show skaters now and “that’s how we spend most of our time. It’s travelling…It’s incredible to take our sport and turn it into art.”
The Olympic ice dancer spoke to TeamUSA about how the proposal went down — and it’s was picture perfect!
“We went on a hike right by Stinson Beach [in California], which was a five- or six-mile hike,” Meryl recalls. “One of our favorite things to do is to go on a hike together, so we had the best time. As we approached the water, towards the end of the hike � which was coming towards the beach � I was looking towards the water and I turned around and he was down on one knee.”
So romantic!
“We both got a little bit teary,” Meryl says. “I was pretty surprised. It just was one of the most beautiful moments that I will definitely cherish for the rest of my life.”
Head to TeamUSA to see what Meryl said about her gorgeous ring!
“Not to mention she’s an Olympic gold medalist! This girl is so humbling and is such a light in today’s darkness,” Violett shared about Meryl on Instagram.
“It isn’t so black and white,” she shared in a new interview. “Charlie and I took until about a month and a half, two months ago to decide for sure to announce that we weren’t going to go back to the Olympics.”
That’s over three years of weighing options and going through all their pro and cons lists.
Meryl adds, “For us, it really is a sort of intangible feeling…We took that time, and were sort of blown in the direction of new adventures.”
And adventures there are…when Meryl isn’t teaching young kids learn to skate through the Figure Skating in Harlem and Figure Skating in Detroit programs, she’s working on her anthropology degree, and next up? Stars on Ice!
The reigning Ice Dance Olympic champions won’t be competing in the upcoming games, but aren’t talking about retirement from the sport at all.
“We are not retired � we are just not competing at the Olympics this year,” Charlie had to clarify in an early morning interview. “That’s as far as we are willing to go.”
He adds about feeling an itch to go back into competition, “So many of our best memories come from those experiences, but the moments we were at competitions and watching everyone … if we felt we should be out there or not, ultimately, and pretty much every time, we came down to the conclusion that coming back to competition was not the right thing.”
“I think we are really proud of the journey, as a whole,” Meryl shared. “Things didn’t always go perfectly, but I’m really proud of the way we were able to learn from our mistakes, pick ourselves back up and, ultimately, I think that’s a really big component that led us to the top of the Olympic podium.”
