International Figure Skating

Ice Dance

The ice dance competition will be one of the most hotly contested events in Beijing.

In 2018, two teams were at the top of the pack and it was a given that either Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir or Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France would emerge victorious.

Virtue and Moir triumphed in Pyeong-Chang, walking away with a second Olympic crown. But it was a close race in the end, with Papadakis and Cizeron finishing second by the slimmest of margins (0.79 points).

Four years later, it is Papadakis and Cizeron who head into Beijing as the oddson

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