Olympic Ice Dancer Gabriella Papadakis Pulled From NBC Coverage Due to ‘Conflict of Interest’

After the Olympic skater Gabriella Papadakis‘s controversial memoirs aired earlier this week, NBC is making a change to its broadcast team.

French ice dancer publishes her book: Pour ne pas disparaître (In order not to get lost)Shortly thereafter, NBC removed Papadakis from its Winter Olympics broadcast due to what the network called a “conflict of interest.”

NBC said, “We respect Gabriella’s right to tell the story of her life and career. At the same time, her new book creates a clear conflict of interest.” sporic in a statement. “Our responsibility is to provide coverage that our viewers can trust to be free of bias, whether real or perceived, and we regret that this is no longer possible given the circumstances.”

In the book, 30-year-old Papadakis describes his former partner as follows: Guillaume Cizeronthey are seen as “controlling, demanding” and “critical” during their time together.

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She eventually refused to skate with him without his coach, she said, adding that she often felt “under his control.”

Papadakis told Agence France-Presse Earlier this week, NBC called him “a few days ago because after I broke things off with my ex-partner, they changed their minds, which makes me very sad.”

She worked for NBC last week, providing ice dancing analysis at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Cizeron responded to Papadakis’ allegations in a statement to French media on Thursday, calling the memoir a “smear campaign.”

“I would like to express my incomprehension and disagreement with the labels attributed to me in the face of this smear campaign,” he said. “The book contains misinformation, including statements I never made and thought were serious. For over 20 years I have held Gabriella Papadakis in deep respect, and despite the gradual erosion of our bond, our relationship has been built on equal cooperation and marked by success and mutual support.”

Cizeron, 31, added that he had instructed his lawyers to “notify all parties involved to immediately stop disseminating defamatory statements about me.”

Papadakis and Cizeron were childhood skating partners until their separation in 2024. They won the Olympic gold medal in 2022 and won the silver medal for Team France in 2018. They also won five World Championship gold medals together between 2015 and 2022.

Cizeron is preparing to skate at the 2026 Winter Games with his new partner. Laurence Fournier Beaudryin the middle of this new debate.

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Ice dancing will begin on Friday, February 6, the same day as the opening ceremony in Milan, Italy.

Papadakis has since retired from competing.

His memoirs also touch upon his early life, where he claims to have encountered cases of sexual abuse. He also takes aim at the ice dancing culture, explaining that men hold the power in this sport as the dance is designed for the man to lead and the woman to follow.

“I don’t suffer because I was sexually abused when I was young, but rather because I find myself in situations every day where my body doesn’t belong to me,” she writes. “I am there without actually being there, semi-inhabiting this body that mechanically carries out the actions it is commanded to perform.”

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