Despite being world champions Brasseur and Eisler became the underdogs with the reinstatement of 2 legendary former Olympic Champions, Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov, and their longtime arch rivals Natalia Miskutienok & Artur Dmitriev. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway they made a strong bid for gold with clean short and long programs, but in a spectacularly skated event which many deemed the best in history, barely were able to fend off the young Russian team of Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, for the bronze medal, gaining it on a 5-4 split.