Figure skating-Papadakis and Cizeron break own world record

ByReuters

Published 20/02/2018 at 04:12 GMT

GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France, skating in their first Olympics, on Tuesday broke their own ice dancing world record with a brilliant and lyrical free dance for a record total of 205.28.

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The previous record of 203.16 was set by them in January.

Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who led in the ice dance after the short programme, set a new world record in the short programme on Monday. (Reporting by Elaine Lies and Rory Carroll; editing by Sudipto Ganguly)

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