Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, of Canada, compete in the ice dance's rhythm dance segment at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Nagoya, central Japan on Thursday.

Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier sit third after the rhythm dance at the Grand Prix Final on Thursday.

The event features the top six entries in each figure skating discipline from the Grand Prix season.

Gilles and Poirier scored 82.89 points, with Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates leading at 88.74 and Montreal’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry — now representing France — and partner Guillaume Cizeron second with 87.56. The Canadians won the Grand Prix Final in 2022, earned bronze in 2023 and finished fifth last year.

“We’re pretty happy with our performance. We wanted to skate with a lot of confid

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