One married couple will spend Valentine’s Day going head-to-head in an Olympic medal occasion.
Belgium’s Kim Meylemans and Brazil’s Nicole Rocha Silveira are competing in the ladies’s skeleton occasion on the 2026 Milan Cortina Video games — simply over a 12 months after they tied the knot.
Meylemans, 29, and Silveira, 31, made their 2026 Olympic debuts Friday in the primary two heats of ladies’s skeleton. Meylemans sits in eighth place, 0.84 seconds off the lead, whereas Silveira is in twelfth, 1.30 seconds off the lead.
Austria’s Janine Flock is in first place. The ultimate two heats are scheduled for Saturday, after which medals might be awarded.
This is not the primary time Meylemans and Silveira have squared off on the Olympic stage throughout their relationship. On the 2022 Beijing Video games, Silveira and Meylemans completed thirteenth and 18th, respectively, within the competitors. That was the Olympic debut for Silveira, whereas Meylemans additionally accomplished on the 2018 PyeongChang Video games.
Meylemans and Silveira met in 2019 on the skeleton World Cup tour and went Instagram official with their relationship in December 2021. Silveira proposed to Meylemans in 2024 in Brazil and the couple obtained married in January 2025 in Canada’s Calgary, Alberta, which is the place they reside.
Meylemans and Silveira are considered one of a number of {couples} competing on the Milan Cortina Olympics.
The third warmth of ladies’s skeleton is at 12 p.m. ET Saturday adopted by the ultimate warmth at 1:35 p.m. ET. The motion will be seen on NBC, Peacock and NBCOlympics.com.
IOC president Kristy Coventry obtained emotional when talking about having to disqualify Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladylsav Heraskevych over his helmet remembering athletes who’ve died in Ukraine’s struggle with Russia.
