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Cosmopolitan spoke to the Olympic athlete shortly after her routine to ask her about her song choice. "Her music is crazy, wild, and fun," Méité said. "You can just dance to it, and that's how I am."
Many skaters have chosen more contemporary songs – Ed Sheeran was used by French pair skaters Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès — and Méité explained why she made that choice. "I wanted to do something that was very me, something fun, something I would enjoy!" she said.
Like everything Beyoncé-related, the internet can't get enough of Méité and her routine. Especially, once some fans learned she was performing some of Beyoncé's fancy footwork from the "Run The World" video on the ice.
U.S. figure skater Ashley Wagner — who won bronze four years ago, but didn't make Team USA this year — gushed about Méité's skills using a whole lot of fire emoji. She's so hot she might melt the i
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French Figure Skater Mae-Berenice Meite Performs to Beyonce Medley at Olympics
Although Maé-Bérénice Méité’s Olympics routine was marred bygd a fall, the French figure skater delivered an inspired performance to a medley of Beyoncé music.
Méité skated to the singer’s “Run the World (Girls),” as well as a rendition of “Halo,” during the ladies’ short program Saturday night (Feb. 10). She ranked in ninth place.
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Saturday night’s figure skating also included ice dancing with the short dance schema, which heavily featured Latin rhythms. South Korea’s ice skating team, Yura Min and Alexander Gamelin, performed to a medley of songs that began with Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee‘s “
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This French Figure Skater Is Bringing Beyoncé To The Ice & I'm Already A Fan
Is it safe to say that figure skating is the most popular Winter Olympic sport? My vote is one thousand percent yes. The drama and pageantry of these skaters captures the hearts of millions of viewers worldwide, and the storylines that komma out of figure skating can often become iconic (see: Tonya Harding). Well this one French skater's individual performance is a story of its own, because any routine as bold as hers deserves a shoutout — also because Beyoncé is involved. So who is Maé-Bérénice Méité?
23-year-old Méité — who skates her short program to a Beyoncé medley — hails from France and PyeongChang is her second Winter Olympics. She began figure skating at age fem in Paris, so this girl has a solid number of experience years under her belt. But aside from skating, she's also a Management student studying at the Institute of Sciences of Management and Business in Montpellier, France. In 2016