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Final clap for Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron. The Olympic ice dance champion duo at the Beijing Games in 2022 announced that they were retiring, in a statement published on Tuesday. Also crowned European and world champions five times, they chose to each take separate paths.

Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, Olympic ice champions in Beijing, have ended their careers

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This is the end of a wonderful story. At the age of 29 and 30, Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron made official this Tuesday the end of their joint adventure by putting an end to their career. This ended in the most flamboyant way with an Olympic ice dance title in 2022 in Beijing. The couple with five world titles had not participated in any competition since their last crown in Montpellier in March 2022. They had chosen to take their time to mature their reflection. Papadakis and Cizeron had first announced a one-year break in June 2022. This will finally be final.

Associated since the age of eight and nine, they leave behind the largest record in the history of French skating. "We could not have dreamed of a better career," they said in a statement. (...) It is with immense gratitude that we decide to turn the page. A huge thank you to our audience for the pleasure shared with us on the ice. We take away wonderful memories." Victim of a burnout, Gabriella Papadakis felt the need to take a break. The couple had been participating in galas for a few months but they will never find their way back to competition.

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Feeling the (navy) blues.

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my friend is so real for this

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Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron skating to Once Upon a Time in America in the 2023 Cinema On Ice show.

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Gabriella Papadakis & Guillaume Cizeron skate to "Big Mistake" by Natalia Imbruglia at Art on Ice 2024

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2022 Canadian Nationals entry #35

Senior men short program

Wesley Chiu

Thoughts: even with the pitched forward landing, that quad toe was a beauty

Conrad Orzel

Thoughts: poor dear. This program asked way too much of him. I mean I would give him a ten just for those drop-dead gorgeous shoulders.

Keegan Messing

Thoughts: I learned to tolerate P/C. I learned to tolerate the Shibs. I will never learn to tolerate him until he picks better outfit choices.

Nam Nguyen

Thoughts:  that tripe axel fall damn near gave me a heart attack.

Roman Sadovsky(frantic happy screaming)

Thoughts: after a while, we stopped having Ted do the commentating. I was only able to find the videos in French. Good thing too. If had to hear what Ted were to say about dear Roman. We would’ve gone straight for the tire Iron. Rolling pin isn’t gonna cut it.  

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papaciz finally calling it a day... farewell... ur olys RD lives in my heart forever...

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Bye bye Papciz bye bye...

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2024 The ICE Aichi

(📷 Yoshiki Kogaito)

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"The fan in me is a little sad," three-time Olympic champion Scott Moir told Olympics.com on Tuesday (3 December).

Moir was reflecting the mood of many inside the figure skating world as the news of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron's decision to retire spread.

"La note finale" was the simple headline from French sports publication L'Equipe, blaring what had long been whispered but not confirmed until a press release Tuesday: That Papadakis/Cizeron would not, indeed, try and defend their gold medal from the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 at Milano Cortina 2026.

"It makes me emotional, even if I was not surprised," Papadakis and Cizeron's longtime coach, Romain Haguenauer said from Grenoble, France, where the Grand Prix Final is set to take place later this week (5-7 December).

"I'm not someone who looks backwards a lot because I don't like being too nostalgic, but I was thinking about the past 15 years," Haguenauer shared. "And especially the past ten years that we've been together in Montreal. It's a lot of very good memories."

Papadakis/Cizeron have the numbers of greatness: Olympic gold, Olympic silver, five world titles, five European titles, two Grand Prix Final wins and seven French championships.

But what made them so great? Ice dance had really never seen another duo like them.

"As soon as they touched hands, it was just magic," continued Moir, having trained alongside the French in Montreal with his partner, Tessa Virtue, from 2016-18. "They just knew how to be there for each other. What they were able to create was just so elegant and beautiful."

"What they brought the sport was this extremely athletic version of artistry," Moir added. "They were the strongest and fastest, and because of that they were able to push themselves to be these artists who could really... rise to the occasion."

When Papadakis and Cizeron claimed gold at Beijing 2022, it marked the first time France had won a figure skating gold at the Olympics since another ice dance team, Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, captured gold at Salt Lake City 2002.

Already superstars within the sport, the duo shot to further fame in their home nation, and were feted at what would turn out to be their final official competition, winning the 2022 World Championships in front of a boisterous crowd in Montpellier weeks after the Beijing Games.

"Gabby and Guillaume are very, very well known in France, and are particularly appreciated by the general public," explained Haguenauer, who coached the duo since they were juniors.

"The culture of dance and contemporary dance is huge in France and I think people recognised that [about them]. Yes, they were Olympic champions and world champions, but more than that, they touched people who are not particularly following sports."

Their retirement will loom large over this week's Final in France, which Moir said now represents a pivot point for the ice dance discipline in particular as teams skate closer to the coming Winter Olympics, in February of 2026.

"The world starts to rotate now around Milano and how you set up Milano," Moir said of the competitive figure skating realm.

He harkened back to the 2017 Grand Prix Final, when Papadakis/Cizeron beat Virtue/Moir just two months prior to the coming Olympic Games.

"I don't think we would have won the Olympics in 2018 if we hadn't lost to Gabby and Guillaume in 2017 at the Final," he said.

"I look back and reflect on our career," said Moir, "And I think we are so grateful for the rivals that we had. We able to measure ourselves against two of the best teams in the history of the sport" in Meryl Davis and Charlie White and Gabby and Guillaume.

For Haguenauer, Papadakis/Cizeron represent a team who trusted the process - and the people around them. He convinced the team to move from France to Montreal in 2014 as the coach was setting up a new academy with the Canadian duo Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon.

Now, the Ice Academy of Montreal is one of the premier skating schools in the world.

"Everything started at I AM with them," Haguenauer said. "They were the first stone" we built with.

At this week's Final, four of the six ice dance teams train in Montreal at the Academy, including two-time and reigning world champions, Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the U.S.

"They brought ice dance to excellence, to the excellence of what ice dance should be," Haguenauer said. "They were at the top of their game for eight years - that's a long time.

He continued: "They have brought a style, a unique elegance and a unique sense of artistry in ice dance... no, in all of figure skating."

"I just dont think we can ever have the conversation about the best ice dancers of all time and not have their names included," Moir concluded. "I just don't think that's possible."

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Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron Fame rhythm dance pops. All these pops I’m posting are ones I’ve made over the last few years. I have only made orders lately but I’ll be done with those soon so hopefully can make new ones at some point. ☺️

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Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron

The best team of the world

i will miss you guys forever

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The Ice Queen || The Ice 2023

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Thank you so much for the memories, Papadakis/Cizeron👏🇫🇷 I remember watching this FD early in the morning. It made me shake and cry with emotion and I remember screaming with joy when the gold was secured. It still manages to make me emotional even today.

Merci!!!

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Grand Prix France entry #7

Short Dance

Lopareva/Brissaud(FRA)

Thoughts: I wasn’t a fan of the outfits but this choreography was fast paced and so fun to watch.

Carreira/Ponomarenko(USA)

Thoughts: I love what Christina did with her hair. The exit on the rotational lift could’ve gone a little smoother.

Reed/Ambrulevicius(LTU)

Thoughts: Saulius has pretty eyes. Unfortunately, they did have that fall. Hopefully they can turn things around in the free dance.

Papadakis/Cizeron(FRA)

Thoughts: I liked Gabriella’s nails. And the curve lift was pretty.

Stepanova/Bukin(RUS)

Thoughts: Alexandra looked hot during the ending pose. Ivan’s facial hair prevents me from finding him attractive.

Gilles/Poirier(CAN)

Thoughts: this is utter orange nonsense but at least the rotational lift is fun.