It didn’t come as easily as they might have wanted, but Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier debuted their ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating season with gold medals hanging around their necks in Saskatoon on Sunday afternoon.

For a record sixth year in a row, the Canadian pair captured gold in ice dance at the 2025 Skate Canada International, much to the delight of fans circling the lower bowl of SaskTel Centre.

“Nobody gets to see all the things that happen in the background,” Poirier said. “All the hours and hours, the weeks, and weeks, and weeks of work that come into these kinds of accomplishments. I think we can just take this as a celebration of what we’ve been able to accomplish through our work collectively as a team.”

Gilles and Poirier entered Sunday’s skate with a nearly five-point

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