I have to say it really does not sit well with me that the judges here were ready to reward Laurence and Guillaume with a potential score of 86 here had he not fallen in the RD, which is an absolutely bogus score that is not deserved or earned by this brand new team! This team has not put in the years of work, cohesion or compatibility together to warrant such blatant and frankly gross overscoring. And what a huge slap in the face to Gabriella Papadakis for IAM and this team to act like they can just replace her, literally cut/copy/paste Gabby with Laurence and blatantly copy the same choreography, costuming, and style that she and Guillaume were known for. Gabby’s skating was/is light, airy, lyrical and fluid, which is not at all the style of how Laurence skates. Laurence is a warrior on the ice, more in the vein of Madison Hubbell, so please someone with power and influence intervene and tell this team to find their own identity that compliments BOTH Laurence and Guillaume because right now it only feels like a Guillaume Cizeron vanity project. These two are being poised and primed to win a medal at the Olympics and I have to ask why and how have they earned such an honor? It feels very wrong, it feels like cheating, it feels like the powers that be are going to just give them their flowers without them having to really earn it, and it feels like a disgusting abuse of politics from IAM and the French skating federation. If this were Gabby and Guillaume coming back and receiving these scores, I would have no problems or questions with this happening, but in what bizarre multiverse have we entered where the world is pretending that Laurence and Guillaume have naturally gelled as an Olympic medal winning ice dance team in the span of less than a year together? This is absolutely ridiculous and a true insult to their competitors and to the integrity of the sport of ice dancing!
