Team USA figure skaters in Colorado Springs cheer on teammates at World Figure Skating Championships
- Chock and Bates scored 90.18 points, leading into the free dance at the World Figure Skating Championships.
- Chock and Bates aim for their third consecutive world title, a feat last accomplished by Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov in the 1990s.
- Gilles and Poirier scored 86.44 points in their rhythm dance and momentarily took the lead before Chock and Bates performed.
- Poirier noted the challenges of catching up, stating, "that's a tough amount of points to catch up on, but we also know that sport is really unpredictable.
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US dancers Chock and Bates, Canadian's Gilles and Poirier building figure skating's best rivalry
American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates and their Canadian counterparts, Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, may have the best rivalry going in figure skating.
Chock-Bates patterns of rhythmic dance, the French Lopareva-Brissaud 9th provisional
The American world champions, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, dominated the rhythmic dance this Friday in Boston. With 90.18 points, they are ahead of the Canadiens Gilles-Poirier and the British Fear-Gibson. The French Lopareva-Brissaud are 9th provisional, before the free dance on Saturday.
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