Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron won the internationals of France on Saturday at Grenoble, ahead of Canadians Gilles and Poirier. Already in the lead on Friday night after a first pass on the South Pole ice, the French did not tremble on Saturday, also winning the free skate, despite a few small errors. “It was not our best performance “ Guillaume Cizeron conceded, “but we managed to improve the little things we wanted to improve so it’s positive, the program is starting to gain ground “.
This success in Grenoble is the third in three competitions for Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron since their return to the ice after an absence of 20 months linked, among other things, to the Covid.
Best performance of the season
With a total (rhythmic and free dance) of 221.25 points they achieve the best world performance of the season, auspicious as the grand prix final now looms in three weeks in Japan where the quadruple world champions will cross for for the first time this winter, the Russians Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, their main competitors for the Beijing Olympics next February.