Canadian ice dancers Gilles, Poirier claim silver at figure skating worlds for 2nd straight year [Video]

Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier will settle for silver once again.

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 figure skating world championships in Boston.

Toronto’s Gilles and Poirier, from Unionville, Ont., scored a second-best 130.10 points in their enthralling free dance to Annie Lennox’s version of “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” for a total of 216.45 in their 12th world championships together.

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Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier scored 216.54 at the world championship capturing a second career world championship ice dance silver medal, this time in Boston.

Chock and Bates tallied a winning total of 222.06, a season’s best, after their jazz medley before the home crowd at TD Garden in Boston. The Americans built a 3.74-point …