These Controversial French "Disney Villains" Ice Dancers Won Olympic Gold Despite Errors, Causing A Huge Scandal
The partnership between the two has been mired in controversy and scandal since its inception in March of 2025, so much so that many people have cast them as “Disney villains.”
French skaters Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron won gold in the ice dancing event at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
The partnership between the two, a newly formed ice dancing couple, has been mired in controversy and scandal since its inception in March of 2025, so much so that many people have cast them as “Disney villains.”
Cizeron, who is gay, was one half of the previous reigning Olympic ice dancing champions, with his former ice dancing partner Gabriella Papadakis.
Cizeron and Papadakis parted ways in 2024, and Papadakis’ memoir "Pour ne pas disparaître" ("So as Not to Disappear") was published in 2026.
In it, she said she was uncomfortable being alone with Cizeron as he was “controlling, demanding, and critical”.
She also said Cizeron threatened to stop skating with her after she said she wanted to formally report a French figure skating coach who she said raped her when she was a teen.
Cizeron has accused Papadakis of running a “smear campaign” against him.
Meanwhile, Fournier Beaudry used to skate for Team Canada with former partner and her boyfriend Danish-Canadian skater Nikolaj Sørensen.
In October 2024, Sørensen was banned by Skate Canada for at least six years for “sexual maltreatment” for allegedly sexually assaulted an unnamed American figure skating coach and former skater in 2012.
The ban was later overturned over its jurisdiction but remains under appeal.
Sørensen denied the allegation.
Fournier Beaudry has continued to publicly support him.
On Feb. 11, Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron scored the highest in both rhythm and free dance to win gold despite visible errors in both performances.
Three-time world champions, American husband and wife, Evan Bates and Madison Chock, took silver, while Bronze went to Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada.
A French judge on the panel scored the French team's free dance nearly three points above the panel average while giving Chock and Bates, who were nearly perfect, the lowest score and over five points below the average, fueling allegations of bias.
The International Skating Union defended the scores as normal panel variation.
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