Ice dance dominance: 10 Olympic teams, including champions, call Montreal home

In the hours before the rhythm dance at the Beijing Olympics, Marie-France Dubreuil could feel the familiar pre-competition nerves.

It had been 15 years since she and husband, Patrice Lauzon, had stepped on the competitive ice.

But the Canadians, who captured back-to-back world silver medals and five national titles before retiring in 2007, might have been the busiest people at Capital Indoor Stadium during the ice dance events.

Dubreuil and Lauzon coached an incredible 10 of the 23 dance teams competing in Beijing at I.AM — Ice Academy of Montreal — including France's newly crowned Olympic champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron.

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Were they as nervous behind the boards as on the ice?

Lauzon said it was a different sort of nerves.

"When I was skating I was very conscious of my body," he said. "Am I feeling good, tired, how are my legs? And as a coach it doesn't really matter.

"Today I was very stressed but it's not the same level at all. And actually having so many teams, I guess makes it easier. Because the ball gets rolling, you're more nervous for the first team, then you get in the moment."

Dubreuil, Lauzon and former French skater Romain Haguenauer co-founded the academy in 2014. They had one team in the Sochi Olympics that year. They had four teams four years later in Pyeongchang, including Canada's Olympic champs Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

Did they ever dream of 10?

"No," Lauzon said with a laugh. "It went quite fast."

Among the other Montreal-based teams: Olympic bronze medallists Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, their American teammates Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Olivia Smart and Adrian Diaz of Spain, China's Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu, and