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    Canadians claim double victory in ice dancing in Halifax – Team Canada

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    THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

    Piper Gilles And Paul Poirierreigning world vice-champions, won the ice dance event on Sunday at Skate Canada International in Halifax.

    For their part in the event, Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha secured a double for Canada by finishing second.

    At the end of the two programs, Gilles and Poirier had collected a grand total of 214.84 points against the 199.90 obtained by Lajoie and Lagha.

    Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps produced a superb performance as a duo to win the gold medal at Skate Canada International in Halifax on Saturday.

    The reigning world pairs champions left no doubt as they scored 197.33 points to win gold. They were separated by almost eight points from finalists Ekaterina Geynish and Dmitrii Chigirev of Uzbekistan and were more than ten points ahead of Anastasia Golubeva/Hektor Giotopolous Moore of Australia, who took third place.

    The duo is off to an impressive start in the ISU Grand Prix. They earned a silver medal in the first ISU Challenger Series event in September to open their season, and have now added a gold medal.

    Kelly Ann Laurin and Loucas Ethier, also competing as a duo for Canada, finished eighth.

    Despite the result, Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps criticized their performance following the event.

    “A little disappointed with the skate. I’m not really sure what happened,” Stellato-Dudek told CBC in an interview. “We need to go back to the drawing board and only up from here.”

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