Who’re Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, the Favorites in Ice Dancing?

The French companions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron received the rhythm dance portion of the Olympic competitors of their ethereal fashion with a world report of 90.83 factors. That gave them an almost two-point benefit over their Russian rivals Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, which could be thought-about a hefty edge in an occasion the place, traditionally, standings usually don’t change.

Papadakis and Cizeron are the 2018 Olympic silver medalists and four-time world champions. They’re looking for a gold medal that eluded them by lower than some extent in shedding to Tessa Advantage and Scott Moir of Canada on the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. At these Video games, Papadakis skilled a wardrobe malfunction through the brief, or rhythm, dance and her left breast was briefly uncovered. Papadakis known as it her “worst nightmare,” and it appeared to depart the couple considerably unnerved. The French received the free dance of their Olympic debut however couldn’t make up the deficit from the brief skate and misplaced the gold by the slimmest of margins, 206.07 factors to 205.28.

Since 2018, Papadakis and Cizeron have misplaced just one competitors — to Sinitsa and Katsalapov — on the 2020 European championships. The French skipped the 2021 world championships and the 2022 European championships, citing the coronavirus pandemic and a deal with the Olympics.