American looking to retain title she won in Beijing
Exceptions are surely out there somewhere, but it’s interesting that snowboarding and freestyle skiing events simply don’t attract the same level of controversy that figure skating and gymnastics get, isn’t?
A lot of people in the USA have questions about yesterday’s ice dance, to put it mildly. Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron won gold – at least, according to four of the nine judges, and their margins of victory were enough to outcount the five judges who preferred Madison Chock and Evan Bates.
Gold went to the controversial French couple, Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron, with 225.82 points, after their routine earned them a top-scoring 135.64pts. Not everyone in the arena was convinced that such a high score was justified.
The pair, who teamed up last year when Fournier Beaudry changed her citizenship from Canada to France, have faced deeper scrutiny. Part of that is down to allegations made by Cizeron’s former partner, Gabriella Papadakis, and the suspension of Fournier Beaudry’s former partner, Nikolaj Sørensen.
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