Piper Gilles shook her head as the scores popped up on the screen. She and Paul Poirier had just delivered their cleanest free dance of the season at the Grand Prix Final. Yet the judges saw it differently — and the marks weren’t enough to bring home a medal.
Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier finished fourth in figure skating’s Grand Prix final Saturday, missing the podium by just 0.06 points.
Three figure skaters from Russia and Belarus, including an Olympic gold medal prospect, were approved Thursday by the IOC to compete as neutrals at the Milan Cortina Winter Games in February.
Canada’s Sara-Mause Dupuis captured a gold medal Sunday at the ISU Challenger Series PGE Warsaw Cup figure skating event.
Stephen Gogolev jumped his way to his first Grand Prix medal on Saturday, but Roman Sadovsky served notice that the competition for Canada’s lone men’s figure skating spot at the 2026 Winter Olympics is going to be a fight.
Canadian figure skaters are in position to reach the podium in every discipline following strong short programs Friday at the 2025 Finlandia Trophy.
Canada’s Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha earned silver in the ice dance event at the Skate America figure skating competition on Sunday.
Canadian figure skaters Kelly Ann Laurin and Loucas Éthier earned bronze in the pairs event at the Skate America event on Saturday.
Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier made history at the Skate Canada International figure skating competition on Sunday.
Two Canadian pairs finished among the top three in Friday’s short program at the 2025 Skate Canada International at the SaskTel Centre.
Roman Sadovsky is embracing the fight. The reigning national men’s champion didn’t flinch when Keegan Messing announced his return to figure skating, and he’s welcoming Stephen Gogolev’s resurgence with the same composure.
Russian figure skater Adeliia Petrosian is set to be a contender for the gold medal at next year’s Winter Olympics after winning the final qualifying event Saturday.
Former world figure skating champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are feeling lighter heading into the Olympic year.
Keegan Messing’s return to competitive skating comes as little surprise to those who've followed him closely since his retirement. For the past two years, Messing has been performing in rinks around the world on show tours with Kurt Browning, and the Canadian figure skating legend says if anything, his triple axels look cleaner.
An arbitrator has overturned Canadian figure skater Nikolaj Sorensen's suspension of at least six years for sexual maltreatment.
World champion Alysa Liu produced a flawless routine in the women’s free skate on Saturday as the United States won its sixth gold medal at the figure skating World Team Trophy.
Maxim Naumov came to a stop in the middle of the ice, looked up at the sky and patted his heart. Then he mouthed a few words, in Russian, to his parents:
Madison Chock and Evan Bates became the first ice dancers to win three consecutive world championships in nearly three decades on Saturday night, the Americans holding onto first place with their jazzy free skate following a strong performance by Canadian rivals Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier.
For the second straight year, the Canadian ice dancers finished second behind American rivals Madison Chock and Evan Bates, who claimed their third consecutive title on Saturday at the world figure skating championships.
Canadian pair Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps finished fifth at the world figure skating championships Thursday, missing the podium a year after capturing gold on home soil in Montreal.
American figure skating sensation Ilia Malinin sheepishly grinned when his closest rival, Japanese star Yuma Kagiyama, said what seems to be on everyone's minds these days: “I'm starting to think he's invincible.”
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