Olympic ice dance champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron shattered their own rhythm dance world record on Friday to take the lead over two American teams at the world championships in Montpellier, France.

The Olympic figure skating program at the Beijing Games probably won't be remembered for the soaring performances of American gold medalist Nathan Chen, French ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron or the Chinese pairs team of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong.

Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron won gold in the 2022 Winter Olympics ice dance by the largest margin using the modern scoring system. After the two have competed sparingly through COVID, it's their nearly 20 years of skating together that carried them to the Promised Land.

After finishing runners-up four years ago, Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron claimed the gold medal.

The Olympic ice dance competition concludes with the free dance, Sunday night U.S. time.

Four-time world champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron lead a team from ROC and two sets of U.S. teams.

The biggest questions at the Beijing Olympics hardly centered on who would win the six gold medals up for grabs.

Two world champion teams go head to head, with two fierce American teams on their trail, in the Olympic ice dance competition.

Six-time U.S. champion Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou are headed back to the Olympics, joined by longtime fan favorite Jason Brown on a strong and deep American contingent for next months’ Beijing Games.