Pets provide more than just company; they often become unofficial team members. Athletes have long been known to be fiercely competitive, always looking for an edge. With a little motivation from their furry (or not furry) sidekicks, we watch these champions accomplish amazing feats.

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Evan Bates Pets

Evan Bates is an American ice dancer. With his skating partner, Madison Chock, he is a 2022 Olympic team event silver medalist, a three-time World medalist (silver in 2015, bronze in 2016 and 2022), a three-time Grand Prix Final silver medalist (2014–15, 2015–16, 2019–20), a two-time Four Continents champion (2019, 2020), and a three-time U.S. national champion (2015, 2020, 2022).

Madison Chock Pets

Madison Chock is an American ice dancer. With her skating partner, Evan Bates, she is a 2022 Olympic team event silver medalist, a three-time World medalist (silver in 2015, bronze in 2016 and 2022), a three-time Grand Prix Final silver medalist (2014–15, 2015–16, 2019–20), a two-time Four Continents champions (2019, 2020), and a three-time U.S. national champion (2015, 2020, 2022).

Mikaela Shiffrin Pets

Mikaela Shiffrin is an American two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup alpine skier. She is a four-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup discipline title in that event.

Lindsey Jacobellis Pets

Lindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder from Roxbury, Connecticut. The most decorated female snowboard cross athlete of all time, she dominated the sport for almost two decades as a five-time World Champion and ten-time X Games champion. In her Olympic debut at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Jacobellis won the silver medal in snowboard cross, but was unable to medal at the next three Olympics until winning gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Mariah Bell Pets

Mariah Bell is an American figure skater. She is the 2022 U.S. national champion, 2020 U.S.

Jamie Anderson Pets

Jamie Anderson is an American professional snowboarder. She won the gold medal in the inaugural Women’s Slopestyle Event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and repeated the feat at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, making her the first female snowboarder to win more than one Olympic gold medal. She has won gold medals in slopestyle at the Winter X Games in consecutive years in 2007/8 and 2012/3.

Hilary Knight Pets

Hilary Knight is an American ice hockey forward with the PWHPA and the United States women’s national ice hockey team. She previously played for the Les Canadiennes de Montreal of the CWHL and the Boston Pride of the NWHL, with whom she won the inaugural Isobel Cup. Knight competed for the Wisconsin Badgers women’s ice hockey program, as well as for Choate Rosemary Hall.

Ireen Wüst Pets

Ireen Wüst is a Dutch former long track speed skater.

Matthew Stafford Pets

John Matthew Stafford is an American football quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia, where he was a first-team All-American, and was selected first overall by the Detroit Lions in the 2009 NFL Draft.

Chloe Kim Pets

Chloe Kim is an American snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women’s snowboard halfpipe at 17 years old. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she became the first woman to win two gold medals in halfpipe.