Overview
- Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron delivered a season-best free dance of 135.50 for a 222.43 total to secure France’s ice dance gold.
- Three-time champions Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri took silver with 210.34, while Britain’s Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson earned bronze on 209.51 after a costly twizzle error.
- Nika Egadze landed four quadruple jumps to win the men’s title with a 181.72 free skate and 273.00 overall, marking Georgia’s first European men’s singles victory.
- Italy’s Matteo Rizzo claimed silver with 256.37 to lock up a second Olympic berth for his country, and Georgii Reshtenko earned bronze for the Czech Republic with 238.27.
- The week’s buildup featured a public dispute as Gabriella Papadakis’s memoir alleged controlling behavior by Cizeron, which he rejected as a smear campaign; Papadakis said she lost an NBC commentary role.