Madison Chock and Evan Bates overcome illness for fifth US figure skating title

• Reigning world ice dance champions win fifth US title
• Chock and Bates overcome flu-like symptoms in victory

Madison Chock and Evan Bates have become so dominant in ice dance that not even a sudden illness could stop them Saturday.

Two days after they began developing flu-like symptoms, the longtime figure skating partners took to the ice and laid down a free dance at the US championships that was good enough for gold. Chock and Bates scored 215.92 points to easily outdistance Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko for their third straight title and fifth overall.