Milan ¨C France¡¯s ?Laurence? Fournier? Beaudry and Guillaume? Cizeron captured ice dance gold at the Milano Cortina Olympics on Wednesday, edging the United States¡¯ Madison Chock and Evan Bates in a remarkable story of reinvention less than a year after they teamed up.
Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron ¡ª who became the first ice dancer to win back-to-back Olympic titles with different partners after he also captured gold in 2022 with Gabriella Papadakis ¡ª scored 135.64 points with their spellbinding free dance to earn 225.82 overall.
Three-time world champions Chock and Bates, who had been undefeated all season, had to settle for silver with ?a total of 224.39. After chasing an Olympic medal in ice dance for more than a decade, they finally secured one on Wednesday, but it was not the ?color they ?had dreamed of.
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