French figure skaters Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron wowed judges and broke their own world record to win Winter Olympic ice dance gold, four years after a wardrobe malfunction ended their hopes in PyeongChang. Papadakis says her “brain doesn’t understand” what they have achieved, while Cizeron says it has created a memory he will “never forget”.
The last on the ice for the free dance, Papadakis and Cizeron scored 136.15 points for their performance to “Elegie” by the early 20th-century French composer Gabriel Faure. That gave them 226.98 points, beating their previous world record of 226.61 set in 2019, and easily enough to hold off Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov for gold.
“I think we don’t believe it yet. Honestly, it feels completely unreal,” Papadakis said. “We have been waiting for this. This is the medal that we wanted. My brain doesn’t understand it.”
source espn.com
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