--- title: Figure Skater Performs to Rapper's Delight at Winter Olympics description: While a medal is up in the air, France's Chafik Besseghier won best music of Thursday night in PyeongChang at the men's short program. canonical: https://time.com/5162565/olympics-chafik-besseghier-rappers-delight/ author: Sports Illustrated article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-16T16:24:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:43.196Z og:title: Behold a French Figure Skater's 'Rapper's Delight' Routine og:description: He went with The Sugarhill Gang because the Winter Olympics is for the bold og:url: https://time.com/5162565/olympics-chafik-besseghier-rappers-delight/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte870e6dec2bde98a/698927ee22fb857afee24c84/chafik-besseghier.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Figure Skating - PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games, Gangneung, Korea - 16 Feb 2018 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Behold a French Figure Skater's 'Rapper's Delight' Routine twitter:description: He went with The Sugarhill Gang because the Winter Olympics is for the bold twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte870e6dec2bde98a/698927ee22fb857afee24c84/chafik-besseghier.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Behold This French Figure Skater's Graceful 'Rapper's Delight' Routine by [Charlotte Carroll / Sports Illustrated](/author/sports-illustrated/) ## Charlotte Carroll / Sports Illustrated Feb 16, 2018 4:24 PM CUT  Mandatory Credit: Photo by HOW HWEE YOUNG/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9411771j) Chafik Besseghier of France in action during the Short Program of the Figure Skating Men Single competition at the Gangneung Ice Arena during the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games, South Korea, 16 February 2018. Mandatory Credit: Photo by HOW HWEE YOUNG/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9411771j) Chafik Besseghier of France in action during the Short Program of the Figure Skating Men Single competition at the Gangneung Ice Arena during the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games, South Korea, 16 February 2018.How Hwee Young—EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock by [Charlotte Carroll / Sports Illustrated](/author/sports-illustrated/) ## Charlotte Carroll / Sports Illustrated Feb 16, 2018 4:24 PM CUT While a medal is up in the air, France’s Chafik Besseghier won best music of Thursday night in PyeongChang. He performed his short program to “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang. Dressed like a taxi driver, he nailed this choice. Besseghier​ is in good company as French pairs skaters Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres [also chose a great song](https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/02/13/winter-olympics-figure-skating-songs-pyeongchang-2018 "undefined"): They skated to Ed Sheeran’s version of “Make it Rain.” Since NBC is strict with videos, here’s a look at the performance from earlier this season. And if you need more figure skating song choice analysis, click [here](https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/02/13/winter-olympics-figure-skating-songs-pyeongchang-2018 "undefined"). _This_ [_article_](https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/02/15/french-figure-skater-performs-rappers-delight "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_SI.com_](http://si.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5162565/olympics-chafik-besseghier-rappers-delight/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5162565/olympics-chafik-besseghier-rappers-delight/"},"headline":"Behold This French Figure Skater's Graceful 'Rapper's Delight' Routine","datePublished":"2018-02-16T16:24:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:43.196Z","description":"While a medal is up in the air, France's Chafik Besseghier won best music of Thursday night in PyeongChang at the men's short program.","url":"https://time.com/5162565/olympics-chafik-besseghier-rappers-delight/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte870e6dec2bde98a/698927ee22fb857afee24c84/chafik-besseghier.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Carroll / Sports Illustrated"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte870e6dec2bde98a/698927ee22fb857afee24c84/chafik-besseghier.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Figure Skating - PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games, Gangneung, Korea - 16 Feb 2018","caption":"Figure Skating - PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games, Gangneung, Korea - 16 Feb 2018","creditText":"How Hwee Young—EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5162565/olympics-chafik-besseghier-rappers-delight/","name":"Behold This French Figure Skater's Graceful 'Rapper's Delight' Routine"}}]}] ```