(Reuters) -Laurence Fournier Beaudry announced she had become a French citizen on Saturday, making the Canadian-born 33-year-old eligible to compete for France at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics alongside partner Guillaume Cizeron.

In March, Olympic ice dance champion Cizeron announced he would be teaming up with Fournier Beaudry, months after Fournier Beaudry's former partner Nikolaj Sorensen was suspended for six years for "sexual maltreatment".