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Figure Skaters Mariah Bell and Brandon Frazier Appear to Hard Launch Surprise Relationship
@Source: people.com
Brandon Frazier has a new partner off the ice!
On Saturday, May 31, the Olympic gold medalist pairs skater seemingly hard launched his relationship with fellow retired ice skater Mariah Bell.
“Odds are.. it’s going to be a great summer,” Frazier, 32, wrote alongside two images on Instagram of himself and Bell embracing on a California beach at sunset.
Bell, 29, shared similar pictures on her Instagram account with a simple caption: “Happy 😊”
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Friends, those in the skating community, and fans were cheering on the announcement in the comments. “All of my dreams have come true,” Alexa Knierim, Frazier’s former partner wrote, while ice dancer Madison Chock enthused: “Yes yes yes!! 😍”
The two former skaters even had fun in the comments, with Frazier posting, "I think we should see other people." Bell responded, "thank god."
In 2022, Frazier left competitive skating to pursue other interests, including obtaining a business degree, and he also assisted former competitive skater Jenni Meno as a coach at his former training facility in Irvine, Calif., according to Olympics.com.
Last summer at the Paris Summer Games, Frazier, along with other members of the U.S. team, received his gold medal for team performance from the Beijing Olympics, over two years after the Russian doping scandal.
Bell — who finished 10th in Beijing — previously opened up to PEOPLE about the end of the relationship she was in with French skater Romain Ponsart.
"It was really hard. It was really sad. I really had to work through it. It's hard when you're just not expecting something," she told PEOPLE on the eve of her Olympics debut in 2022.
"Obviously, being engaged it's really tough and it's something that a lot of people go through and do get through it. It's really tough in the moment, but I definitely believe that that was something because I was broken, I didn't skate for a while," Bell continued at the time. "I didn't know what I was going to do. And I decided I was so close to this ultimate goal that nothing was going to effect. I was capable and I had all the support that I needed. But I'm even more proud now looking back."
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