It was a beautiful novel, a beautiful story of two decades. But behind the rhinestones and the few sequins of the costumes and the gold of the medals (especially that of the Beijing Olympics) hid a much more tormented reality. The late Gabriella Papadakis-Guillaume Cizeron carriage seems irremediably transformed into a pumpkin.
The Clermont skater took out the first blade. In a book “written in a sort of fury” last summer in London, and to be published on January 15 (“To not disappear”, published by Robert Laffont), the five-time world champion revisits an existence of torment and darkness where the highs of the podiums were not enough to mask the lows of everyday life.
