France’s Cizeron, Fournier Beaudry win ice dance gold at 2026 Olympics

[ad_1] French determine skaters Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry pulled off an unbelievable exploit on Wednesday, successful Olympic gold in ice dancing after skating collectively for only a 12 months.

Cizeron, 31, and 33-year-old Fournier Beaudry, took the title forward of reigning world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the USA after the free dance finale.

Canadians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier took bronze.

For Cizeron it's a second consecutive Olympic ice dance gold after he received the title on the Beijing Winter Olympics 4 years in the past with Gabriella Papadakis.

Cizeron and Papadakis retired from competitors following their fifth world title in 2022 and he teamed up final March together with his shut buddy, Fournier Beaudry.

Cizeron and Fournier Beaudry had taken a slim 0.46-point lead over the Individuals going into the free dance finale on the Milano Ice Skating Enviornment.

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France's Clement Noel reacts within the end space after competing within the slalom run of the boys's staff mixed alpine snowboarding occasion throughout the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Video games on the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio (Valtellina) on February 9, 2026. © AFP - DIMITAR DILKOFF The Individuals, who're mates, coaching companions in Montreal and rivals of the French, offered a fiery flamenco to an orchestral rendition of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black".

However skating final, the French concluded their competitors with a mesmerising routine set to the highly effective soundtrack of the 2022 movie "The Whale."

They completed 1.43 factors forward of the three-time world champions.

Gilles and Poirier snatched bronze with their Vincent van Gogh tribute to the music of "Starry, Starry Night time", which acquired large cheers and pushed Italian couple Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri into fourth place.

Fournier Beaudry, a Canadian who acquired French citizenship final November, had been out there after the suspension of her former companion, Nikolaj Sorensen, who was implicated in a 2012 sexual abuse case in Canada, which he has denied. Sorensen was within the crowd in Milan.

On the street to the Video games, the French couple skilled a tumultuous season.

Three weeks earlier than the Video games, they discovered themselves embroiled in controversy when Papadakis revealed a ebook that precipitated an enormous stir.