Link to the announcement from the French Federation (in French): https://www.ffsg.org/IMG/pdf/2025.02.18 ... QYsWlfu8PAFourteen years ago, our paths crossed, like two stars destined to shine in the same sky. For over a decade, we have grown side by side, sharing joys, challenges, and an unwavering passion for ice. We have supported each other through every step our journeys, inspiring one another, never imagining that one day, our trajectories would unite on the ice.
Today, the universe offers us a new adventure. A duo born from friendship, respect, and love for the sport. A dance written by the years, and fueled by the fire of our dreams.
A new story begins.
News story in L'Equipe
From: https://www.lequipe.fr/Patinage-artisti ... 26/1543683
Machine translation:
Guillaume Cizeron returns to competition ahead of 2026 Olympics
Olympic ice dancing champion Guillaume Cizeron (30 years old) will return to competition with a new partner, Quebecer Laurence Fournier Beaudry (32 years old), under the colours of France.
They announced it this Sunday on their social networks: Guillaume Cizeron (30 years old) and Laurence Fournier Beaudry (32 years old) have decided to skate together and hope to compete in the next Olympic Games in Milan, in February 2026. The new ice dancing couple, associated since January, will represent the colors of France, even if the Quebecer has yet to obtain her French passport.
For Guillaume Cizeron, reigning Olympic champion, five-time European and world champion with Gabriella Papadakis, it is quite a turnaround since the duo had officially announced their retirement on December 3. A new chapter that he intends to write with a dancer who is not unknown: with Nikolaj Sorensen, her partner in the city who is suspended for a minimum of six years for "sexual abuse" (on another skater in 2012), she has long been in the world top 10 and even came close to the podium in 2023 (5th).
Friends and accomplices, they want to be ambitious. Even if time is not on their side, in a discipline where symbiosis requires it. They should thus start competing at the beginning of August, follow up with the Masters in France, one or two stages of the Grand Prix.
And if they succeed in qualifying for the Games, Guillaume Cizeron would have the opportunity to make history in his sport: for the moment, only the Russians Irina Rodnina and Artur Dmitriev have succeeded in being crowned Olympic champions in artistic couples with two different partners. For her, it was with Aleksei Ulanov (1972) and Aleksandr Zaitsev (1976 and 1980); for him with Natalia Mishkuteniok (1992) and Oksana Kazakova (1998).
