- 5 hours ago
Glitter and Gold Ice Dancing - Season 1 - Episode 03
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00:10Gold medal on the line in the free dance here this afternoon, Lake Placid.
00:00:14The pressure is so intense.
00:00:16Years of sacrifice for this one shot at Olympic glory.
00:00:20And moments away from that final team taking the ice,
00:00:23and it is the Americans, Madison Schott and Evan Bates.
00:00:28Pain is scary, like especially the unknown, it can be dangerous.
00:00:33It's not uncommon for athletes to just push through pain.
00:00:38It's just kind of built into us to train through it, to skate through it.
00:00:43You always want to like go for it, but then at a certain point once you realize like,
00:00:49maybe I shouldn't have done that, you're out there and like there's a lot of people watching.
00:01:00There's also another factor, which is the skirt.
00:01:04They're going to be trying to do the slide, plus hold the skirt,
00:01:07and not let anything disastrous happen.
00:01:11The questions in my mind right now are, is my body going to hold up?
00:01:15Am I going to bail out of a lift or something because it hurts?
00:01:20Am I going to be safe to lift Maddie?
00:01:32What a great lift into that difficult position.
00:01:36How risky it is too.
00:01:41They've been together for so long, experienced so much.
00:01:44They skate very much at the same heartbeat.
00:01:48Good speed across the ice, up over the shoulders.
00:01:51The audience is on their seats.
00:01:59Wow.
00:02:00Just incredible, really.
00:02:02Who can do that?
00:02:10Just tremendous skill throughout the whole performance.
00:02:13I can see this at Center Ice in Milan.
00:02:16The fans of the United States of America have earned a free dance score of 127.8 of a season
00:02:25in the United States of America have earned a free dance score of 127.8 of a season.
00:02:35Now the adrenaline's leaving my body, and my body doesn't feel good.
00:02:43But we did what we needed to do, and I'm proud of that.
00:02:47The Grand Prix scores are so close.
00:02:50Like, we knew it was going to be tight, but this is pure insanity.
00:02:53We truly will not know how everyone's going to stack up until the Grand Prix Final in Japan.
00:03:20Good, how are you?
00:03:21Good.
00:03:22How are you?
00:03:25Good.
00:03:25Good.
00:03:25Good.
00:03:26Good.
00:03:26in Toronto and we are doing a shoot with Coca-Cola.
00:03:32Sorry, you said anything we get you to look forward to.
00:03:34Oh my goodness, sorry.
00:03:35I can't not look at my husband, he's so handsome.
00:03:38He's such a handsome woman.
00:03:39Look at that.
00:03:41Settling, quiet on set, and action.
00:03:46There is always like a little bit more pressure.
00:03:49In an Olympic year, there's just more going on,
00:03:51like more eyes on the sport.
00:03:58So let's start, you guys, with twisting and turning.
00:04:01Do not look at camera.
00:04:03Lifting her a bit.
00:04:04Want me to lift you a little bit?
00:04:05Sure.
00:04:07Yeah, there you go, great, great.
00:04:10No, it's like with the Olympics, I feel like every four years,
00:04:12it's like a balance of finding time to train
00:04:14and get ready for the season,
00:04:16but also take once-in-a-lifetime opportunities
00:04:18like this one.
00:04:19This is a different amount of attention,
00:04:22but it's up to us to manage how we focus
00:04:25on what's important.
00:04:27The Winter Games in Milan Cortina now
00:04:29just 100 days away.
00:04:32We're getting closer and closer to like Olympics time.
00:04:35I am so excited.
00:04:38When you're halfway through a season,
00:04:41especially an Olympic season, you kind of can predict
00:04:44what might happen in ice dance results.
00:04:47But this year is very different.
00:04:49Madison Jock and Evan Bates as they take the title.
00:04:54Piper Gillis, Paul Poirier on top of the podium here
00:04:58in Skate Canada.
00:05:00With Guillaume and Laurence in the mix,
00:05:03everything has shifted now in ice dance.
00:05:06Usually, it takes time for teams to gel.
00:05:09They have gelled extremely well.
00:05:16With what we've seen from Guillaume and Laurence
00:05:19at their last Grand Prix,
00:05:21they are definitely the ones to beat this season.
00:05:25Ain't nobody gonna save me, no.
00:05:29If you are Piper and Paul and if you are Madison and Evan,
00:05:33I don't see how you could not be a little rattled.
00:05:35So we're headed into Finlandia next week,
00:05:38and now you're gonna have two top teams,
00:05:41Piper and Paul, meeting with Laurence and Guillaume.
00:05:44It's gonna be a bloodbath.
00:05:46It's going to be a bloodbath.
00:05:47This is where all of the placements
00:05:49for the Grand Prix Final get solidified.
00:05:52And a preview of what's to come at Olympics.
00:05:56This doesn't happen a lot where you're up against
00:05:59one of the other top teams before the Grand Prix Final.
00:06:02So if Guillaume and Laurence beat Piper and Paul,
00:06:07holy cow.
00:06:08They need to have, like, the best material of their life.
00:06:12No pressure.
00:06:13Ain't nobody gonna save me, no.
00:06:27Oh, this one.
00:06:29This is my My Fair Lady costume.
00:06:34I loved the pink.
00:06:36I felt so elegant.
00:06:37And it was just so beautiful.
00:06:40If I could wear this now, which one maybe,
00:06:46I haven't really changed since I was 13, 14,
00:06:50so it's possible.
00:06:53Let's see.
00:06:54Oh, gosh.
00:06:55The 90s sweaters.
00:06:59All the top skaters had it.
00:07:01Actually, my mom, now I'm just remembering that.
00:07:04Any costume that we would have,
00:07:06she'd put a gold ladybug inside,
00:07:09because ladybugs are supposedly good luck.
00:07:13She was heavily involved in the design process,
00:07:16and I think that was, like,
00:07:20how my mom and I, like, truly bonded.
00:07:25Free! High pipe!
00:07:28She could turn anything into everything.
00:07:32With costumes, she could literally pull an idea
00:07:35and be, like, this is what we're doing
00:07:37and shape it into something beautiful.
00:07:41My mom was, like, the skater mom to everybody.
00:07:44She wasn't afraid to give her own opinion on your skating,
00:07:48which was just, like, oh, mom.
00:07:50But, like, people loved it because she was so honest.
00:07:58Going into the 2018 Olympic Games,
00:08:03I started to notice some really bizarre behaviors.
00:08:08So I took her to see a doctor.
00:08:11Within about an hour, they were like,
00:08:13she's got some kind of tumor
00:08:15on the left and the right side of her brain.
00:08:16It was, like, spread out like a butterfly.
00:08:21And, of course, the first thing you do is go to Google, right?
00:08:24Like, if you have glioblastoma,
00:08:26which is what she had,
00:08:27and, like, the size of it, stage four,
00:08:29you have anywhere from five days to 15 months.
00:08:36It was just a complicated situation
00:08:39trying to figure out, like,
00:08:41do I stay home and help my mom?
00:08:46But my dad was like,
00:08:47this is...
00:08:48this was an Olympic journey
00:08:49and an Olympic dream that she had, right?
00:08:51So we continued and decided to go for it.
00:08:55Next skate,
00:08:56Fiber Mills at Ball for you.
00:08:58We made it to my first Olympic Games.
00:09:02My dad and my siblings were there to watch in person,
00:09:05but my mom was watching from home.
00:09:08And Paul and I had a skate of a lifetime.
00:09:13Complete split.
00:09:15Oh, now, that is very interesting and cool.
00:09:19There was a vision,
00:09:20there was the execution,
00:09:22there was the change in mood,
00:09:23a change in timing.
00:09:27To this day, like,
00:09:28I could still get goosebumps.
00:09:34What we created in that moment was so special.
00:09:40That just brings a smile to your face.
00:09:45Just a marvelous performance.
00:09:50And to know that my mom was able to see
00:09:55a Olympic Games.
00:09:58It was really cool.
00:10:00It was really cool.
00:10:14If we want to keep the same timing,
00:10:16we can do the swivel swivel,
00:10:17but if we're not going to do the point on the turn to the left,
00:10:20then it doesn't matter.
00:10:22Doesn't matter.
00:10:22Let's do it again.
00:10:23Okay.
00:10:24So, for our free dance,
00:10:26we call it Vincent,
00:10:27but a lot of people call it Story Night.
00:10:30It's a program we did seven years ago
00:10:33that put us on the competitive map.
00:10:37I don't know,
00:10:38I don't care how many times I've seen this program.
00:10:41It never fails to move me.
00:10:45When we were thinking about Olympic music,
00:10:47we kept coming back and thinking,
00:10:49we would really like to finish the story with Vincent again,
00:10:54because they never did it in an Olympic year.
00:10:57And that program meant a lot of different things
00:11:01to different people.
00:11:04It was the program we choreographed
00:11:05when Piper's mother was very ill before she died,
00:11:08and Piper's mother never got to see it.
00:11:12I actually remember hearing the first draft of Vincent
00:11:15on my patio in Colorado
00:11:17while we were kind of organizing all the funeral stuff.
00:11:20Story, story night.
00:11:22And I felt like, oh my God,
00:11:24this would have been a program that my mom would have loved.
00:11:27And as we started to compete it,
00:11:30every time I finished, like, I had like a tear in my eye.
00:11:32I looked at the top of, like, the arena,
00:11:36and I was just like, she's here.
00:11:38She's here.
00:11:38And like, I want that feeling.
00:11:40Like, I want to be almost like reconnected with my mom
00:11:42by bringing this program back.
00:11:45So pick it up from corner or...?
00:11:49Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:11:50We'll take it from the corner, kind of the end.
00:11:52But then it's like, oh my gosh,
00:11:53now I have to kind of like bring myself back
00:11:55to a time that was so hard.
00:12:00Since we're recreating a program,
00:12:02the risk could be that it seems like
00:12:05you're not living for a bird.
00:12:06Yeah.
00:12:07Let's go for it.
00:12:07Make something we all like.
00:12:09Okay.
00:12:10For us, it was really important to not just
00:12:13to do it the way that we had done it before,
00:12:15but to take this piece of music
00:12:18that we feel really connected to,
00:12:19that we really love,
00:12:20and see where does that music take us now?
00:12:24I don't know what she's doing, so...
00:12:26Well, hold on.
00:12:27We'll probably do that.
00:12:28Programs are never finished
00:12:29across the course of the season.
00:12:30And as soon as you compete,
00:12:33it changes everything.
00:12:34I'm fine to leave it.
00:12:34I'm fine to leave it.
00:12:35It was just one thing that popped out in my own mind.
00:12:37We can put that on the list.
00:12:38Ski Canada was successful in the fact that we won,
00:12:43we have good feedback,
00:12:46but obviously the free dance for us
00:12:48was really disappointing.
00:12:49And there, that one moment.
00:12:51Just don't feel it's quite as polished
00:12:54as we're used to seeing from these two.
00:12:56It's gonna have to go up a notch, I think,
00:12:58as the season goes on.
00:13:00The overall goal is just to be faster,
00:13:03be closer, be stronger.
00:13:05But I think we know exactly now
00:13:06what we need to do to make it better.
00:13:08Yes, exactly.
00:13:09You are the artist.
00:13:10Like, I'm the painting and like...
00:13:12You know, it's the story about Van Gogh
00:13:13and his relationship to his art
00:13:14and how he was not a painter
00:13:16that was appreciated in his time.
00:13:18Where were you taking it from?
00:13:19Uh, he said Mark the Limb.
00:13:20But it's also the story of us
00:13:23and our relationship with our own crafts.
00:13:27I'm feeling really positive
00:13:28about the adjustments that we made.
00:13:30Sorry, that's okay.
00:13:31But really nervous for the Grand Prix in Finland.
00:14:01Okay.
00:14:07You've never done that.
00:14:20It's hard to compare, really,
00:14:22the effort of biking versus skating.
00:14:24The biking helps us with our overall endurance,
00:14:28but what we do on the ice is much harder.
00:14:35It's hard to replicate off the ice
00:14:37because you would have to use your legs
00:14:39and your arms and your core at the same time.
00:14:46Here, we don't have to make it look like it's easy.
00:14:49Like, it's a repetitive movement
00:14:50and we're kind of doing our thing on the ice.
00:14:52We have to, like, look like everything is easy.
00:15:01There is also that human aspect
00:15:03that when you find your partner's eyes,
00:15:07it's like an exchange of energy
00:15:09that even when you're tired,
00:15:10you're kind of, like, going through the same motion
00:15:13and you want the same goal
00:15:14and you're just kind of, like,
00:15:16putting more fuel on the fire.
00:15:18There is that exchange and connection aspect
00:15:21that is hard to find in another sport.
00:15:30Ice dancing is being a princess on the ice
00:15:35and you're actually skating with a partner,
00:15:39so it's like you're skating with a prince.
00:15:41It's like a fairy tale, kind of.
00:15:47But with that, your appearance matters.
00:15:53When I was around 15,
00:15:55I started comparing myself to other girls,
00:15:59envying other girls
00:16:00because I was always a very athletic girl
00:16:02and at the time,
00:16:03you had to be a ballerina on skates.
00:16:06You had to be very elongated
00:16:09and had very nice lines.
00:16:12In my mindset,
00:16:13the muscle was breaking the lines.
00:16:18So, I had a period of my life
00:16:20where I was going through phases of
00:16:22anaeroxia and bulimia.
00:16:27I think the one word
00:16:29that I can remember feeling at that moment
00:16:32is really feeling alone.
00:16:36I could not say that to anyone
00:16:38because I knew it was not something healthy,
00:16:41but then at the same time,
00:16:43it's like I felt like there was no other option.
00:16:47I remember being young
00:16:48and just being like,
00:16:49well, in order for you to be better than the next girl,
00:16:53you need to figure out how to stand out.
00:16:56Like, we are seen as the perfect doll.
00:17:01We can't just be athletic.
00:17:04We also have to be creative.
00:17:06We also have to be beautiful.
00:17:08When you step out onto the ice,
00:17:09you're not just being judged
00:17:11for what you do on the ice,
00:17:13but how you do it,
00:17:14how you look while you're doing it.
00:17:16We don't like her
00:17:16because her costumes were ugly.
00:17:18About hair.
00:17:19About makeup.
00:17:19Did she wear too much makeup?
00:17:21Too little makeup.
00:17:22About weight.
00:17:22Your facial expressions.
00:17:24How you're emoting on the ice.
00:17:25You're too young.
00:17:26You're too immature.
00:17:27Too muscular.
00:17:28Or not muscular enough.
00:17:29Do I like that color?
00:17:30Is that dress pretty?
00:17:32About everything.
00:17:35And then you're trying to please
00:17:37nine judges on today's panel,
00:17:39but then another nine on tomorrow's panel.
00:17:45What helped me the most
00:17:46was to open up with the people closest to me.
00:17:53And I think there was a lot of healing done
00:17:56through years, you know, through years.
00:18:00And just thinking that if I had to do this
00:18:02to somebody else, I wouldn't.
00:18:04So then I thought, why do they do this to me?
00:18:08Hello.
00:18:11I just thought about, like,
00:18:13if that was my little girl,
00:18:16like, how would I react?
00:18:19Hello, everyone.
00:18:21Is it okay?
00:18:23Yes.
00:18:25It's not something that you fix in one day.
00:18:27It's not something that you can just snap your finger
00:18:32and it goes away.
00:18:33I bring my fingers together.
00:18:36Bring the fingers together.
00:18:37The hardest thing is to find what's unique for you
00:18:42and let go of that self-criticism
00:18:45and use the tools and the community
00:18:48and the team that you have around you to help you.
00:18:51The movements.
00:18:52But the movements, it comes from you.
00:18:56It comes from your heart.
00:18:58If there's something I always want to share,
00:19:00it's that I want them to remember that they are unique.
00:19:03Your trainers will give you a base of movement.
00:19:07But how do you interpret it?
00:19:10How do you interpret the movement?
00:19:12How do you interpret the movement?
00:19:12How do you interpret the movement?
00:19:15So you're not trying to copy a movement,
00:19:17you're trying to take a movement and make it yours.
00:19:25I really hope that by being able to skate like both me and Guillaume do,
00:19:32we're going to be able to portray that with athletic bodies,
00:19:38you're able to win.
00:19:47Welcome to Helsinki.
00:19:50This is one of the deepest Grand Prix dance fields I have ever seen.
00:19:55Of course, this is the final Grand Prix qualifier in this year's series.
00:20:00Biggest, biggest showdown.
00:20:02Gillis and Poirier versus Fania, Beaudry and Cizeron.
00:20:05Who's coming out on top?
00:20:07Guillaume and Laurence, Piper and Paul.
00:20:10It's an insane event.
00:20:11It's do or die at these Grand Prix events.
00:20:14If you don't make the podium, you're not going to the Grand Prix final.
00:20:17I want to say it's like the Hunger Games.
00:20:21Gillis and Poirier have had now three weeks to tinker.
00:20:25I think the question is how much will that help them increase their scores?
00:20:42We've just arrived in Finland.
00:20:44We're doing our second Grand Prix of the season.
00:20:47So in order to qualify for the Grand Prix final, we want to win the competition.
00:20:58Every competition is kind of a check mark into the confidence aspect.
00:21:02Right now, I would say I feel pretty chill.
00:21:06Before Angers, it felt okay, but it was like kind of a safety mode.
00:21:12Yeah.
00:21:12And now we're more like in a more like attack mode.
00:21:15Yeah.
00:21:28It's a very exciting life at competitions.
00:21:30You just kind of spend a lot of time in your room taking care of your body.
00:21:35We did a lot of changes to the program since Skate Canada.
00:21:38And so it felt a little bit chaotic, especially the first week coming back.
00:21:43And my brain felt like I had to do a lot of gymnastics to figure out, to get comfortable with
00:21:48everything again.
00:21:49But I'm feeling really positive about those changes.
00:21:52You're so used to doing it a certain way.
00:21:54You've built that muscle memory.
00:21:56And when you make those changes, even if they are positive changes, it takes time to get used to it.
00:22:06We've probably changed about 25% of this program in the two weeks that we had.
00:22:16But I think, I mean, it was definitely for the better.
00:22:18I think Paul and I feel way more comfortable with what we've changed this program to.
00:22:27I, I'm more nervous when I'm doing nothing.
00:22:31Um, I think just like the waiting and sitting around is the worst part.
00:22:38I get the most nervous on a bus ride.
00:22:59Piper and Paul's first test to see how do they stack up in that race to the gold medal in
00:23:06Milan is how will they fare at this Grand Prix in Finland against Guillaume and Laurence.
00:23:12Welcome to Helsinki in Finland for this Finlandia trophy rhythm dance.
00:23:18We have a gold medal favorite who has no world placement from the year before.
00:23:23Going head to head with somebody who's seated.
00:23:27This is like not a normal circumstance.
00:23:32Helsinki, are you ready?
00:23:35As you know!
00:23:36Helsinki, are you ready?
00:23:37At last year, the first time will shine.
00:23:43Work together, look after each other.
00:23:45That's the way it always works the best, right?
00:23:47We know this.
00:23:49And the pressure has never been so intense.
00:23:53The energetic expectations of these teams heading towards the big one, the Olympic Games.
00:24:09in the ice dance competition on a technical panel they will assign a level to the elements
00:24:14the skaters skate that can be anything from a base level to the maximum level four
00:24:22the quality of blade control so so impressive and that is clear criteria for the judges
00:24:29we have come to expect that the skaters of the caliber of laurence young piper and paul
00:24:34they'd be pushing level three and level four their musicality and energy really evident throughout
00:24:41that rhythm dance performance i hope for a season best that's the first thing but to be in first
00:24:48position they would have to be around 84 85 86 exactly any more than that would be a bonus any
00:24:56less than that i'll be a little disappointed i'll be right in history slight break there for piper
00:25:02but lots of ice coverage through the sequential twizzles such quality and the body control of
00:25:11these two athletes is really really crisp
00:25:18it's been a good skate
00:25:21great job guys
00:25:23well done
00:25:24well done guys good job good job
00:25:30laurence and guillem they have three elements under review at present
00:25:37the nice dance the technical specialist the technical controller they can bury somebody
00:25:44because it is so subjective
00:25:47and now it's a level one for their patent dance type step and a level one for both of the
00:25:53skaters
00:26:05of far less experience
00:26:08level one is normally a level more assigned to skaters of far less experience
00:26:19our skating community is rocked by the concept that the olympic champion
00:26:23can be deemed only worthy of a level one and here just to look at the back bracket
00:26:38no team going above 80 thus far now piper gillis and bob poirier under review by the panel
00:26:46good job i'm very proud of you thank you no matter you know yeah
00:27:01let's not over analyze and that's some harsh calling by the technical panels
00:27:07you're what happened you got a base on it but your arms were identical
00:27:12you were i couldn't see the nose it was crazy piper got base twizzles i don't think she's had a
00:27:20base twizzle in her entire life in anything ever
00:27:26i'm kind of surprised about i think all the levels throughout the competition it's unfortunate that
00:27:33like the top athletes in the world are getting level ones it looks like we're almost junior skaters and
00:27:38it's not like no one should be getting bases level ones at at this caliber of skating does that make
00:27:44you in the future want to continue to be involved in the sport if it continues like that it's a
00:27:51it's a hard pass
00:27:53we're very well trained to not get carried away with all the judging but in this case it was just
00:28:00so
00:28:00unfair that like we couldn't stay silent thank you for not leaving me by myself no it was i literally
00:28:08had prepped that in my head then you started and i was like yes i can rationally comprehend the levels
00:28:14that were assigned i can understand why those levels were given out the difficulty is that it's a
00:28:21different lens and framework that has been used for the calls here than it has been for so many events
00:28:28previously the isu said that they are now investigating the dance event at that competition and the way it
00:28:37was judged my hope is just that we can see an effort being made to make sure that teams understand
00:28:45why
00:28:45they are getting these levels yesterday doesn't change anything they'll just come out and skate their
00:28:51program they know what to do they have their plan in their head they know how they need to approach
00:28:57it
00:28:57they know how they need to approach it and that's what they'll do
00:29:03next escape
00:29:44well yesterday the ice dance competition was shrouded in discussion about levels and technical element
00:29:52score and yes of course levels count yes of course rules are important but what makes our sport so
00:30:01special is the way in which it can move humans and move as emotionally
00:30:08for me as a fan of the sport and a fan of these people that have given so much for
00:30:14so many years
00:30:15others i'm most grateful for the way they emolt and express and move us
00:30:46five weeks ago they won the grand prix de france with the highest score of the season what will be
00:30:52significant is the relationship of their result to the world's silver medalists piper gillis and
00:30:59paul poire since we saw this free dance earlier in the season they have changed elements to create more
00:31:05points as they fight to try to take the title at the finlandia trophy with a free dance score of
00:31:14122.55
00:31:16it's a silver for the canadians and with 124.29 it's gold for the french
00:31:25both teams will be headed to the grand prix final in just two short weeks where they will finally go
00:31:31head to head with the three-time and reigning world champions madison chalk and evan bates
00:31:39i think you have to be mindful of how we treat this experience and how we treat this result it's
00:31:45very easy to get caught up in all of the numbers of everything and to doubt yourself and feel like
00:31:50you're doing everything wrong and that's not something we can afford to do right now we were
00:31:54able to bring the rhythm dance to another level and bring the free dance to another level and we know
00:32:01how
00:32:01we felt on the ice no matter what the scores were and that's that's what we're going to bring back
00:32:06home
00:32:25we're gonna wrap this in my sleeve it's cute evan's mom is our olympic historian this is from sochi
00:32:38she's got it all organized she labels our costumes for us so you can see my mom catalogs everything
00:32:44with great care these are the opening ceremony gloves she like keeps it in these nice plastic
00:32:56bins so it it's preserved for when we hopefully one day pass it down to our family
00:33:02we would definitely like to have kids if it's in our future we would be very happy but that's been
00:33:08been on hold and we understand that's just part of the business my costume from pyeongchang
00:33:16has not come out of that box for seven years
00:33:30madison chalk and evan face have been among the best in the world for the last several years
00:33:36look at that lift perfectly done this is make or break for them if they want to climb to the
00:33:42podium
00:33:45oh no
00:33:48and that is a disaster in ice dance
00:33:53just looked like she wasn't ahead of him enough on the circle and with them both going down that's a
00:34:00two-point deduction before the music was even over i could see maddie was already crying
00:34:09very upset that's i hate to say that train anybody
00:34:19sorry
00:34:21it's kind of hard to look back on those games
00:34:25because it it's just like it was over before it started
00:34:37the sweaters from beijing this team does lifts like no one else in the world such trust and beauty
00:34:45we felt like we actually delivered a great skate
00:34:50chalk and dates with a chance to make it on the podium for the first time and finished in fourth
00:34:56place just off the podium margin for error is just so small being ice dancing
00:35:03after we had the kind of olympic heartbreak we packed all that stuff away and we like didn't want to
00:35:09like even wear the gear
00:35:16just the the reminder i think uh was really like difficult
00:35:27so it was hard in that moment to commit to another four years after that olympics
00:35:35you didn't do coffee to go yeah but in my heart i think i knew we weren't done
00:35:56a few years ago i started kind of feeling ill just nauseous and like period like pains specifically
00:36:04on the left side and i always had bad periods but i was like i'm not having my period right
00:36:09now but something's happening and then eventually got in contact with um my current doctor my point's at
00:36:183 3 3 3 45 right um yeah that's what i thought and then on my birthday uh january 16
00:36:252023 the results
00:36:28came in and of course i opened it and i was like cancer crap
00:36:36i was diagnosed with ovarian cancer stage one
00:36:41it was so so scary it's like am i gonna have to stop skating am i gonna have to like
00:36:48go through
00:36:49chemo there was so much unknown i was lucky enough to just have surgery like we didn't know how bad
00:36:58it
00:36:58was because it was a nine centimeter cyst um with the tumor bleeped attached to it but i got really
00:37:05lucky
00:37:05to not have to do like any other treatment um just follow-ups hello hello hi how are you good
00:37:13how
00:37:14are you long time no see i know um anything new since your last visit pretty much everything's been
00:37:21similar okay perfect yeah and no aches or pains any changes in no no periods or anything like that
00:37:28everything's totally normal perfect yeah i'm doing well like i'm currently cancer-free it took about two
00:37:35and a half years for me to like feel like myself what i've learned was like i just had to
00:37:39be a
00:37:39little bit more patient with myself like i couldn't expect myself to be 100 piper because
00:37:46that 100 piper isn't there anymore so all good news from the ultrasound point of view so that's
00:37:53awesome okay all right so we'll see you in six months yeah any problems you know where to find me
00:37:58yeah having to experience my mom's cancer battle and and and my cancer battle i think i fought um
00:38:11for her you know i fought to just live the life that she couldn't see you know and if she
00:38:16could see
00:38:17me and like what i'm up to she'd be proud
00:38:26it's just made me appreciate every moment in life it's like every day i get to wake up and go
00:38:34to the rink it's a blessing
00:38:42even if it's hard
00:38:47ah you're waiting too long you're waiting too long you know i'm glad i get to go through the hard
00:38:55stuff because it the alternative is way worse
00:39:00i felt good
00:39:25last week i've received the message with the confirmation that i had obtained
00:39:30my french citizenship
00:39:43so i'm at the consulate of france in montreal for the actual physical passport
00:39:59this is a very special moment
00:40:10it's very special also to me because i have family in france so it's more than just for skating
00:40:21i'm extremely grateful to have that opportunity it's very exciting
00:40:48i feel like it'd be fun to open a tea shop yeah
00:40:51oh that would be fun so candles and incense maybe more incense than candles
00:40:59i know what i want to do once i retire i'll be a librarian at your shop i like this
00:41:05life for us
00:41:06i'm excited about it actually it's my favorite yogurt from japan so there's something really
00:41:12special about the yogurt lids in japan if you drop yogurt on them
00:41:19none of the yogurt stays on the lid it just rolls right off
00:41:27it's magical this society is superior they are living in the future
00:41:33i'm so grateful to be here because there was a moment there where i thought
00:41:36i might not see you in japan skate america was not fun i was just having a flare up with
00:41:43my back and
00:41:44so i just took time off after lake placid and i felt so much better i think we both needed
00:41:48a little
00:41:48break and when we got back on the ice it was we were just all systems go for japan
00:42:02let's talk about the grand prix final it is the grand prix final it is the best of the best
00:42:07going
00:42:07head to head this is like the final frontier this is what we've kind of all been waiting for
00:42:14for this olympic season it's the first confrontation of the six contenders for the olympic podium i expect
00:42:23for the top three to be some combination of orna beaudry scissoron chalk and bates
00:42:32guillis and poirier i gotta give my vote of confidence to piper and paul i feel like you have
00:42:39the gold medal favorites of chalk and bates i just really cannot see anybody beating who wants in
00:42:46guillaume i think it can be very close honestly i cannot tell who is going to win in this case
00:42:52equally
00:43:07i'm so conscious of the cleanliness the christmas and the match stylistically in this team
00:43:23it's very hard to debate the quality of this team no matter who your favorite team is
00:43:29the world's in guillaume just moved with such quality
00:43:42let's go watch me do it like this
00:43:47madison and evan they can do stuff that laurence and guillaume couldn't do in their
00:43:52very early stages of their partnership
00:44:03watch me do it like this
00:44:08so
00:44:33just
00:44:36Madison and Evan will take first place with Laurence and Guillaume close behind them in second.
00:44:42Piper and Paul are in third place frustratingly further back as they head into the free dance
00:44:47to determine who will stand at the podium here at the Grand Prix Final.
00:45:07Let it glide, don't force anything.
00:45:33So in practice today, my skirt got caught under his foot in the slide.
00:45:39I felt like I had the skirt in my hand.
00:45:41And then when we released to go for the exit, I had a big chunk of it and I just
00:45:46let it go.
00:45:47It kind of slipped underneath my blade.
00:45:50And then at that point, like, you can't skate on fabric.
00:45:55Maddie's the most classy, stylish, well-dressed woman.
00:46:00And it's like she's the victim of her own brilliance when it comes to costume making.
00:46:05And now that dress, it's making me nervous, so I don't know how she's going.
00:46:12It's a feeling, like, with anything, I think any skirt, like, the other girls also have long skirts.
00:46:18So it's just being aware and, like, finding that sense of awareness while you're out there skating.
00:46:34Final day of competition for the Grand Prix.
00:46:38After the first group of skaters, the British team temporarily hold the lead.
00:46:42That certainly places pressure on Piper and Paul, who will open the next group.
00:46:48On the line, representing Zawa.
00:46:50That is particularly exhilarating and exciting, of course, because it is the Olympic season.
00:46:56We see the real battle for the podium start to shake out now.
00:47:00Very close at the top between Shock and Bates and Fournier, Beaudry, and Cizeron.
00:47:07We're also close for that third place podium spot.
00:47:10Every single move will be important.
00:47:16It would be understandable that the couples would be cautious and want to play it safe and skate cleanly.
00:47:22But unfortunately, the battle is so intense that they can't have a cautious performance.
00:47:28It has to be an aggressive, attacking performance.
00:47:32Getting to that mindset, OK?
00:47:36No distractions, just another day in the office.
00:47:40OK.
00:47:40OK?
00:47:41Take one step at a time.
00:47:43Yeah.
00:47:43You got this?
00:47:44Yeah.
00:47:45You got this.
00:47:46All right.
00:47:48I'll get it then.
00:47:52See you after.
00:47:53Yep.
00:47:54Piper Gillis and Paul Poirier of Canada, they need to score 125.93 points to guarantee a podium.
00:48:02Spock.
00:48:03Piper Gillis and Paul Poirier, Canada.
00:48:20Starry, starry night, paint your palette blue and grey.
00:48:30Look out on a summer's day
00:48:33With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
00:48:37It's been really special to come here at this event
00:48:41and it's just crazy to think about all the years we've skated together
00:48:48all the things that we've been able to live through together
00:49:00On this 15-year journey of ours
00:49:02while he is my stable, loyal friend, partner
00:49:08I wouldn't be where I am without him
00:49:14I'm just so struck by how unique the lives that we've been able to live are
00:49:20Those experiences, those stories, those relationships
00:49:24Those are the things I'm going to cherish the most
00:49:31You just take this leap of faith that you found the right partner
00:49:34And I know I definitely did
00:49:42The way in which each element is interwoven
00:49:45and the way in which this is constructed
00:49:47You don't want to interject with words
00:49:49I love it
00:49:52Beautiful
00:49:53Oh my goodness
00:49:55That was so good
00:49:57Good job
00:49:59Come on, let's breathe
00:50:00Yeah
00:50:01They need 125.92 points to tie for third
00:50:07.93 would guarantee them a top three spot
00:50:10Going to be very close between them and Lila Fear and Lewis Gibson
00:50:14as they wait for their scores
00:50:19125.86
00:50:20The total competition score of 208.75
00:50:26Most likely moved them off the podium
00:50:29Six one-hundredths, separate
00:50:31Six one-hundredths
00:50:33Very close
00:50:34Goodness gracious, that is so close
00:50:38All good, you've seen the best
00:50:40That's a bit of a shocking result for me
00:50:45Despite skating well, Piper and Paul find themselves out of the conversation for gold
00:50:50There are a host of questions now for Piper, Paul and their team
00:50:54As to how they can get back in favor with the judges
00:50:58What can be done moving toward the Olympic games
00:51:04I don't want to go into the rest of the year having to like skate amazing like that and have
00:51:09no supporters
00:51:15We've put so much energy into this
00:51:17I'm like
00:51:18Of course we have
00:51:19We've put in everything we can
00:51:22We're gonna go home and put in work
00:51:24But
00:51:27It's one of those moments where we have to appear strong
00:51:29Even if we're pissed off
00:51:31Then we can have all of our feelings, okay?
00:51:34I understand how you feel
00:51:35Yeah
00:51:35I'm just like
00:51:38There's
00:51:39There's
00:51:40There's just so much work
00:51:40Yeah
00:51:42It feels like it's for nothing this year
00:51:45It's gonna be for something
00:51:46I know
00:51:47It's gonna be for something, okay?
00:51:49It's gonna be for something, okay?
00:51:49It's gonna be for something
00:51:49People can actually say something in my dream
00:51:51Yeah
00:51:55Yeah
00:52:05Laurence Fournier-Baudry and Guillaume Cizeron
00:52:09From the race to the podium to the race to the top
00:52:14Laurence Fournier-Baudry and Guillaume Cizeron
00:52:18And this is a team that could challenge for an Olympic gold medal
00:52:23So their performance here
00:52:24Super important to see how they stack up against Chalk and Bates
00:52:28Who are Olympic gold medal favorites
00:52:30Madison Chalk and Evan Bates have accomplished so much
00:52:33They are the three-time reigning world champions
00:52:36And they feel like it is their time to grab that Olympic gold medal
00:52:42And for sure, no one can make a mistake here
00:52:49I've raised my glass
00:52:51I'm a winner
00:52:53And I'm seeing clearer
00:52:58I'm done with waiting
00:53:01For greatness
00:53:04I can feel it in my blood
00:53:09For nothing
00:53:12I can feel it
00:53:12I can feel it
00:53:12Cause it will
00:53:13Qualifying for the Grand Prix Final
00:53:16Was already a big milestone for us
00:53:18I can feel it for money
00:53:20It's so crazy, like, coming into this with Laurence
00:53:24And having this history together
00:53:25Like being such close friends for so many years
00:53:28I'm gonna take my place
00:53:33This might be our final Grand Prix Final, so I know it's going to be special just in
00:53:39that regard.
00:53:42This year in particular has presented some new challenges for us.
00:53:48All the goals that we've set for ourselves are right in front of us.
00:53:52The Enseepo draw blood, sweat and tears to get themselves to be the Olympic champions
00:53:58in Milan.
00:53:59I'm so happy that I found the courage to ask Laurence to skate with me.
00:54:04It's important to pause, look back how far we've come and how much we've grown together.
00:54:11This is the first time that they've really felt the heat of another team kind of nipping
00:54:18at their heels.
00:54:20All the years of hard work, we left no stone unturned and we did it together.
00:54:26This has been the problem element earlier in practice.
00:54:37We don't know how long it's going to last.
00:54:39We don't know if we'll keep going or if it's just for this one year.
00:54:44So we try to grasp every moment of it.
00:54:48Lil and Gyeong showcasing something incomprehensibly spellbinding.
00:54:56Oh my goodness, absolute nightmare.
00:55:00And the final element incurs a fall.
00:55:03So that mistake will cost them.
00:55:08They had a chance to make a big statement against Chalk and Bates in this competition
00:55:12and it was their opportunity to win over this team ahead of the Olympics.
00:55:18Wow, the plot absolutely thickens.
00:55:25But despite all the pressure placed upon them by the French team, Madison and Evan stepped
00:55:31up and delivered ice dance this season has been dramatic.
00:55:55The margin was 1.18 points between this team and the team of Chalk and Bates.
00:56:02The mistakes certainly seem like they'll loom costly here as the judges put the finishing touches
00:56:08on the score.
00:56:09Don't move.
00:56:09Don't move.
00:56:10Don't move.
00:56:10It's amazing.
00:56:11Like that.
00:56:12It's the chemin.
00:56:15That somewhat freakfall by Laurence at the end of the program and we'll see that of course
00:56:19in the replays.
00:56:21Oh, it's a dress.
00:56:23Was it the true one?
00:56:24It was the dress.
00:56:25No way.
00:56:28What do you want?
00:56:29It's human error.
00:56:30It's human error.
00:56:31It's human error.
00:56:32It's human error.
00:56:33It's human error.
00:56:42The score, 126.69 with a 214.25.
00:56:47Even with a fall, that is a big score and this begs the question, if Laurence and Guillaume
00:56:54had skated cleanly, what would they have received from the judges?
00:56:59The next team have had dress issues themselves.
00:57:02They've been very much the undisputed favorites for that Olympic gold medal and I think that
00:57:08they've handled this pressure so beautifully.
00:57:11Here, the final team in the Grand Prix Final.
00:57:14In a season of surprising results and surprising scores, you can still see that Madison and
00:57:20Evan are wondering what is going to be rewarded and awarded to them.
00:57:32131.68, season's best first overall with a total competition score of 220.42.
00:57:48It has to have been a challenging season, but despite all the pressure placed upon them
00:57:55by the French team, they have maintained their status as the front runners.
00:58:01I'm happy that we still got second, but we're at this point in our career where unfortunately,
00:58:09we're not content with a second place.
00:58:13It kind of brings up that fire inside towards the Olympics.
00:58:24It's hard to be in this position and like have to go home and try to figure out how to
00:58:28be better.
00:58:30We have eight weeks until the Olympics.
00:58:33It's very important to not let the setbacks turn into doubt.
00:58:38The path to success will require us to have utmost faith in the decisions that we've made for ourselves.
00:59:01Oh, thank you.
00:59:02Chestnuts, not to die for this.
00:59:04Chestnuts?
00:59:05Chestnuts.
00:59:05Beautiful.
00:59:06Wow.
00:59:12I'm sorry, bud.
00:59:15Mochi is superb.
00:59:20Splendid.
00:59:21Succulent.
00:59:23You don't like mochi, do you?
00:59:25Yeah, I know.
00:59:25Sorry.
00:59:27Good sport.
00:59:29Being here is a win, honestly.
00:59:32It could have been easy to just not show up.
00:59:39Just kind of like respectfully bow out, but we didn't.
00:59:47We have proven to ourselves what we already know to be true is that like,
00:59:51we'll do whatever it takes to take the ice.
01:00:00Olympic gold was always the goal.
01:00:03After this week, it has solidified we have the ability to accomplish what we set out to do.
01:00:14What if it all works out?
01:00:17What if all our dreams come true?
01:00:21What if we get exactly what we've been working for?
01:00:24What if it all works out?
01:00:43La prossima domanda, so già che non risponderai
01:00:49Dimmi dai, dove andrai?
01:00:52Non è tanto dove, però porta come
01:00:57Porta con te, chi c'è, chi c'è
01:00:59Chi mi ha letto ha detto ti rialzerai
01:01:02E allora vedrai, se poi ti conviene
01:01:08Essere per bene, non me la bevo, non ti conviene
01:01:11Oggi si lo vedrà, mi impegnerò a volermi più bene
01:01:16Scioglierò capelli e catene
01:01:20Perché sono libera, di portare il mio tempo
01:01:23Dire quello che sento, sono più libera
01:01:26Se a volte un po' spanno, se lascio il comando
01:01:29Il cuore si libera, non ha più l'affanno
01:01:31Era solo un inganno, perché sono libera
01:01:41Riporto i miei pensieri sui miei passi
01:01:44Se sono un po' distratti, le sgriderò
01:01:49Scappo via ma sono a caccia
01:01:52Do fuoco a questa miccia
01:01:54Più tardi poi mi scuserò
01:01:56Ho vestiti, ancora dei tuoi sbagli
01:02:07Guardati, non vorrai rifarli
01:02:15E allora vedrai, se poi ti conviene
01:02:21Essere per bene, non me la bevo, non ti conviene
01:02:25Oggi si lo vedrà
01:02:27Mi impegnerò a volermi più bene
01:02:29Scioglierò capelli e catene
01:02:33Perché sono libera, di portare il mio tempo
01:02:36Dire quello che sento, sono più libera
01:02:39Se a volte un po' spanno, se lascio il comando
01:02:42Il cuore si libera, non ha più l'affanno
01:02:44Era solo un inganno, perché sono libera
01:03:01Sono libera
01:03:06Perché sono libera
01:03:17Grazie
01:03:38Grazie
01:04:08Grazie
01:04:38Grazie
Comments