{"id":428,"date":"2014-02-10T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=428"},"modified":"2014-02-10T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:00:31","slug":"truth-ice-dancing-duo-meryl-davis-and-charlie-white-are-not-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/10\/truth-ice-dancing-duo-meryl-davis-and-charlie-white-are-not-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth: Ice Dancing duo Meryl Davis and Charlie White are not dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-429\" alt=\"daviswhite\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/daviswhite.jpg\" width=\"712\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/daviswhite.jpg 712w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/daviswhite-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>US Ice Dancing duo Meryl Davis and Charlie White have been together for so long. Yet the duo is not dating.<\/p>\n<p>Davis and White were part of the US team that won a bronze medal on Sunday. They are the favorites to win the pairs competition on Feb. 17.<\/p>\n<p>NBC decided to highlight the long time the two have been together&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Meryl_Davis\">@Meryl_Davis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlieaWhite\">@CharlieaWhite<\/a> then and now: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/vBuGkYTQtn\">pic.twitter.com\/vBuGkYTQtn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCOlympics\/statuses\/432685169367973888\">February 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Born in Michigan, they have been skating together since six. They became a pair in 1997.<br \/>\nWhich begged the question as to whether or not they are dating.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: No. Davis is dating former skater Tanith Belbin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-430\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-430\" alt=\"Tanith Belbin and Charlie White\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/tanithcharlie.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/tanithcharlie.jpg 660w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/tanithcharlie-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanith Belbin and Charlie White<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Asked by <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/here-s-the-reason-olympic-star-charlie-white-doesn-t-want-you-to-know-who-he-s-dating-052659194-olympics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahoo Sports<\/a> about his relationship with Belbin being a secret the 26-year-old White replied:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It actually still is. So probably &#8230; we don&#8217;t really talk about it. As an ice dancer, we take our on-ice relationships so seriously, and that&#8217;s really the way we like to go about it. [Davis and I] are just presenting ourselves as a team, and all the rest of that [with Belbin] can wait for later.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Ice Dancing duo Meryl Davis and Charlie White have been together for so long. Yet the duo is not dating. Davis and White were part of the US team that won a bronze medal on Sunday. They are the favorites to win the pairs competition on Feb. 17. NBC decided to highlight the long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}