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Out, gay skater Guillaume Cizeron and dance partner Gabriella Papadakis have won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in the pairs ice dancing.
The French couple, who put on a stunning display of synchronicity, also earned themselves a record-breaking score of 226.98 in the process.
Their triumph comes four years after they won a silver medal at the Pyeongchang Games in South Korea. On that occasion, Papadakis suffered a “wardrobe malfunction” and her dress came apart. Papadakis said at the time, “I felt it right away and I prayed. It was pretty distracting, kind of my worst nightmare happening at the Olympics.”
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For their Valentine’s Day winning routine, they danced to Gabriel Fauré’s Élégie. Check out video clips below.
Champions olympiques 😍🏆💪Gabriella Papadakis et Guillaume Cizeron obtiennent la médaille d’or en danse sur glace
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron 🇫🇷 win the Olympic gold medal that narrowly eluded them four years ago in Pyeongchang. pic.twitter.com/Kza2YXmJOF
— Thibault Fiolet 🇪🇺 (@T_Fiolet) February 14, 2022
Absolutely CAPTIVATING ✨
France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron put on a mesmerizing performance in the rhythm dance and score a world record 90.83 pic.twitter.com/dL3W0Og0wr
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) February 12, 2022
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On Instagram, Cizeron called the gold medal win, “Un rêve” (“A dream”).
Cizeron, 27, lives in Montreal, Canada, but competes for France.
Although he says he was never really in the closet, the first time he publicly made it clear he was LGBTQ was when he posted a photo of himself and his boyfriend to Instagram in 2020. He was blown away by the response, telling the French, gay magazine Tetu a week later, “It was quite funny how people reacted to this photo. I would not consider myself in the closet before posting this [photo], so I don’t really consider it coming out.
“Even though I have never spoken publicly about my sexual orientation, I am one of those who think that it is not something that [people] should have to do. Straight people don’t come out. … I still hesitated a bit before publishing. Because I’m not in the habit of revealing really intimate things. I don’t know what got into me, I said to myself, ‘What do I have to lose?’”
Cizeron is the second out, LGBTQ athlete to take a gold medal in Beijing. Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst won her sixth Winter Olympics gold medal in the women’s 1,500-meter final last week.
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Chrisk
Funny and hot when you see a Skinny boy with big muscular ass.
JustMuscles1
I saw, i loved! And it was all about his black pleather pants from Saturday gave me wet dreams! ????
johncp56
I saw the performance passing channels, and fell for him omg those legs and handsome face,,, yes please
BrokebackBob
I have a question which I hope someone could answer. In pairs skating, does it matter what the gender is of each skater based on how they identify? Maybe I’m just not up on everything but it seems like pair skating is always male female pairs.
jcool
yup, 1 male 1 female. you’re getting the olympics confused with dancing with the “stars”
Doug
Beautiful guy and amazing performance.