Winter Olympics 2018 Overexposed: Gabriella Papadakis and Winter Olympic wardrobe malfunctions At recent Games there have been a series of wardrobe woes and costume mishaps … with the French ice dancer being just the latest Gabriella Papadakis, right, and Guillaume Cizeron performing in Pyeongchang. Photograph: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images
The French ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron have made Winter Olympics headlines for all the wrong reasons – because of a wardrobe malfunction that left Papadakis overexposed on the ice.
“I felt it right away and I prayed,” Papadakis said after the top of her costume became unhooked and slipped. “It was pretty distracting, kind of my worst nightmare happening at the Olympics. I told myself: ‘I don’t have a choice. I have to keep going.’ And that’s what we did. I think we can be proud of ourselves being able to deliver a great performance with that happening.”
Facebook Twitter Pinterest France’s Guillaume Cizeron performs with France’s Gabriella Papadakis as the back fastening of her costume comes undone. Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images
The US broadcaster NBC, mindful of the furore when Janet Jackson was accidentally exposed at the Super Bowl half-time show in 2004 and a water polo player suffered similar misfortune at London 2012, issued a statement explaining “once a competitor’s brief wardrobe issue became evident, we purposely used wider camera shots and carefully selected replays to keep the issue obscured”.
Papadakis and Cizeron are far from being alone in the history of costume disasters at the Winter Olympics. Indeed, their misfortune isn’t even the first one on the ice in the Pyeongchang Games.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yura Min and Alexander Gamelin of South Korea. Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA
On day three the South Korean skater Yura Min’s costume came undone at the back. She later tweeted: “Despite the wardrobe malfunction, I had an amazing time competing in my home country! I promise to sew myself in for the individual event.” She also posted a video clip of her joking about the way she had covered herself up, with the single word: “Oopsie.”
It isn’t just in the ice rink that athletes experience problems. At Sochi in 2014 Henrik Harlaut’s trousers headed south during qualification for the men’s freestyle skiing slopestyle.
Fortunately his underwear held up – with the Swede claiming he was used to performing like that anyway: “I don’t find it difficult. I’ve skied like that the past 10 years. It’s been my style for a while. I’m pretty comfortable like that.”
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sweden’s Henrik Harlaut, and his pants, compete in Sochi. Photograph: Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Harlaut completes his run. Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images
It was also a costume mishap at Sochi that introduced the Winter Olympics to the phrase “Powerbelly”. The Canadian bobsledder Christopher Spring found the uniform he had been given to compete in was no match for his tummy, leading him to tweet: “I tried on my race suit ahead of tomorrow’s 2man Olympic race and its a little … er tight. #powerbelly”
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Spring’s Olympic costume reveals a bit too much. Photograph: Twitter/BobTeamSpring
The textbook “wardrobe malfunction” usually involves involuntary exposure, but the speed skater Olga Graf at the the Sochi Games is the exception. Having just secured bronze in the 3,000m, Graf absent-mindedly unzipped the front of her skating suit, having forgotten that she wasn’t wearing anything underneath.
As the realisation dawned, she clutched the suit closed and seemed to apologise to the crowd. “I totally forgot, we have very good suits and they are very tight. You just want to breathe and you want to take off your suit,” she said afterwards.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russia’s Olga Graf celebrates after winning a bronze in Sochi. Photograph: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images
Even the smallest of costume mishaps can severely impede an athlete. At Vancouver 2010, Japanese figure skater Nobunari Oda became the victim of his shoelaces. Halfway through his free skate they broke and came undone. He approached the judges and was given three minutes to re-prepare and continue but the damage had been done.
“It came untied, it’s my fault, I feel guilty for myself for doing this. I will try to make sure it does not happen again,” he said afterwards. He had been in fourth place going into the routine but slipped to seventh.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nobunari Oda shows the judges his broken lace as he performs. Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nobunari Oda’s broken laces. Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Reuters
With that in mind, Papadakis and Cizeron can perhaps feel lucky about their own moment in the spotlight. Somehow the French couple kept things together in Pyeongchang, producing a score of 81.93 points that left them second behind Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Papadakis and Cizeron survived the mishap, and are currently well-placed for a medal. Photograph: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images
TRIBUNNEWS.COM - Nama Gabriella Papadakis mendadak menjadi bahan perbincangan usai mengalami insiden pada ajang Olimpiade Musim Dingin 2018 yang digelar di PyeongChang, Korea Selatan.
Gabriella Papadakis mengalami sebuah insiden memalukan saat tampil pada cabang olahraga figure skating yang digelar di Gangneung Ice Arena, PyeongChang, pada Senin (19/2/2018).
Kostum hijau yang dikenakan Papadakis melorot saat sedang beraksi pada nomor ice dance program short dance.
Insiden tersebut bermula saat Gabriella Papadakis sedang melakukan gerakan dansa bersama tandemnya, Cizeron Guillaume.
Guillaume diduga dengan tidak sengaja membuat clip kostum pasangannya terlepas sehingga busana yang digunakan Papadakis pun melorot di sepanjang laga.
Meskipun demikian, wakil Prancis ini mampu menyelesaikan penampilannya dan akhirnya menduduki peringkat kedua dengan skor 81,93.
Gabriella Papadakis pun buka suara terkait insiden yang dialami dirinya di Olimpiade Musim Dingin 2018 tersebut.
"Itu cukup mengganggu. Mimpi terburuk saya di Olimpiade (terjadi)," kata Papadakis dilansir BolaSport.com dari BBC .
Namun atlet 22 tahun ini bertekad untuk menuntaskan penampilannya, meskipun tragedi menimpa dirinya.
"Kami harus berbangga karena mampu menunjukkan penampilan apik meski dengan insiden yang terjadi."
Gabriella Papadakis dan Guillaume Cizeron masih akan tampil sekali lagi pada program free dance yang akan digelar Selasa (20/2/2018).
A FRENCH ice dancer bared her breast to millions of Winter Olympics viewers worldwide after suffering a wardrobe malfunction during her routine.
But who exactly is the overly exposed Olympian Gabriella Papadakis and how did her boob end up popping out for all the world to see? Here's the lowdown.
EPA Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron were in the middle of their routine when disaster struck
Who is Gabriella Papadakis?
Gabriella Papadakis is a 22-year-old French ice dancer currently competing in the Winter Olympics.
She competes with her 23-year-old partner Guillaume Cizeron who she began dancing with at around the time they were both nine or 10.
She grew up in Clermont-Ferrand, France but moved to Montreal, Canada in 2014.
Ice dancer Gabriella Papadakis suffers wardrobe malfunction at the Winter Olympics
Together the pair have won, two World Championships, four European Championships, three Grand Prix medals, and three French National Championships.
They are amongst the favourites to take home a medal in PeyongChang.
What was her wardrobe malfunction?
Papadakis and Cizeron were competing in the short dance when her dress somehow got unclipped at the back.
She tried in vain to cover up and eventually managed to clip her top back together.
EPA French skater Gabriella Papadakis had her left breast exposed when her dress became unclipped
Social media users were quick to praise Papadakis for bravely carrying on, while others blasted broadcasters for showing a slow-mo replay.
She said: "It was pretty distracting.
"My worst nightmare at the Olympics. I told myself 'you have to keep going'.
"That's what we did, and we have to be proud of ourselves, delivering a great performance with that happening."
The mishap happened when Papadakis leaned backwards early on and Cizeron inadvertently managed to unclip the back of her green costume.
EPA Gabriella Papadakis managed to clip her top back up towards the end of the routine
Where did they finish?
The duo managed to shrug off the distraction and record a score of 81.93 - enough to move up to second behind Canada's Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue.
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Moir and Virtue's 83.67 broke their own world record, frustrating the French pair who had to deal with the costume cock up.
"It's just frustrating to miss a few points because of a costume issue. It is not what we get ready for when we train," said Cizeron afterwards.
The pair will presumable be opting for more well fitting attire when they take the ice again tomorrow in the free dance section in the hope of taking home a medal.
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French ice dance team rebounds from wardrobe malfunction to earn silver medal
Martin Rogers | USA TODAY Sports
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — There were no tears this time, well, maybe a tiny one creeping into the corner of Gabriella Papadakis’ eye, but oh, what a difference.
Less than 24 hours removed from becoming the most discussed figure skater at these Winter Olympics and the humiliation of being, literally, undressed in public, Papadakis was at peace.
Not just peace but triumph. The French ice dancer and partner Guillaume Cizeron turned in a spectacular performance to rock the free dance and claim silver at the Gangneung Ice Arena. It was raw, emotional, thrilling stuff, made all the more meaningful by what had preceded it.
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On Monday, Papadakis had suffered a figure skater’s nightmare, heck, anyone’s nightmare. In front of a global television audience her dress became unfastened and her breast was exposed. For the entirety of their routine she was powerless to fix it, and had to battle on, knowing that on the biggest stage of all a devastating wardrobe malfunction was threatening her dream of Olympic glory.
It did, affecting their technical elements and knocking them 1.74 points behind Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. But it merely set up the comeback. Epic revivals aren’t all about bottom of the ninth, or 28-3 at halftime, or sudden death overtime. And they don’t always end with a gold medal. Sometimes they are about the power of the human spirit and the strength to will yourself past adversity.
That is what Papadakis did here, along with a partner who never wavered in his support for a second. It would have been easy to wilt. Instead, they were flawless in the free dance, buoyed by the love and backing of a crowd who wanted them to shine.
A score of 123.35 put them into first place, and meant a nervous wait to see if they would be overhauled by first round leaders Virtue and Moir of Canada.
The Canadians are superstars of dance and collected another gold to add to their victory from Vancouver in 2010. Maia and Alex Shibutani of the United States clinched a deserved bronze.
But the sight of Papadakis and Cizeron celebrating, smiling and appreciating the moment left one thing in no doubt: They will leave Pyeongchang as champions.
