US VS. Canada Sports: American Ice Dancers Top Canadian Rivals for the world title

The Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates have become the first ice dancers to win three consecutive World Championships In almost three decades Saturday evening, and the Americans were holding first with their jazz jazz skating after a strong performance by the Canadian rivals Piper Gilles and Paul Poiier.

Zeep and bates Finished with 222.06 points, while Gilles and Poerier took the silver medal for the second consecutive year with 216.54. Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson have landed on the podium in the third, gaining the first world medal of Great Britain since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean finished their race for four consecutive ice dance titles in 1984.

Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Plolov were the last to win three in a row, triumphing four consecutive times for Russia since 1994-97.

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“Coming here, we were not thinking of a type of defense at three or any type of defense of the title. It was an autonomous event,” Bates said. “We were prepared as we might be, and we skated as we could.”

The Americans and the Canadians have dominated ice dance in recent years, winning six of the nine medals assigned in the last three years.

The rivalry between the Chock and Bates teams, Gilles and Poerier has become one of the most intense in recent years and this year has had the additional spice of geopolitical tension among their respective countries.

The silver medals Piper Gilles and Paul Pouller of Canada, the gold medals Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States and the bronze medals Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson of Great Britain place for a photo after medals in the ice dance during the 2025 isu figure skating championships at the TD Garden in Boston March 29, 2025. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

The United States and Canada are engaged in an unprecedented commercial war after President Donald Trump has imposed a series of rates against Canada, causing retaliation rates to response.

The tension of the ongoing commercial war has spread to sport.

The sporty voltage was exposed for the first time during the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off tournament of 12-20 February. Fans in Canada whistled the national anthem of the United States while fans in the Canadian national hymn made a little more games.

It started on February 13, when Canadian fans in Montreal whistled the national anthem of the United States after Trump’s threats to impose rates at Canada and suggest that the country should become the 51st American state.

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The whistle pushed the fights between Canadian and American players in the first meeting of the tournament between the two teams on February 15. The United States won that match 3-1.

The Canadian national anthem was therefore whistled at the Boston TD Garden before a match of 4 nations between Canada and Finland.

The United States and Canada then met in the last February, and American fans in Boston again whistled the Canadian national anthem, albeit with a lighter tone. Canada won the game in extraordinary, 3-2.

Since then, the hostile rhetoric between the two countries, including in sport, has only intensified. NHL games involving teams based in Canada and the United States are often present Booing during the pre – -match National hymns of the team visiting.

Fans a WWE elimination chamber In Toronto he whistled “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the event. The Star Sports Pat McAfee commentator has widely hooked Canadian fans for whistles and the country as a whole in response during the Pavone transmission.

“In a certain sense it sucks that it is in the terrible country of Canada that whistled our national anthem to start this thing,” McAfee shouted at the broadcast table.

Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States perform during the ISU world skating championships at the TD Garden in Boston on March 28, 2025. (Jurij Kodrun/International Skating Union/International Skating Union via Getty Images)

Since then McAfee said he did it Received death threats Against his childish daughter for the comments.

Canadian men’s football coach Jesse Marsch jumped Trump for his “51st state” observations, calling them “offensive”. During the media day of the Concacaf Nations League, Marsch said he was “shameful” of how Canada had been insulted by the president.

“If I have a message for our president, the ridiculous rhetoric is fired on the fact that Canada is the 51st state,” Marsch said. “As an American, I am ashamed of arrogance and contempt, we have shown one of our historically older, stronger and loyal allies. But one thing is certain: when I can’t wait in a month, this will feed our team. The mentality we have, we must play for our country.”

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Legend NHL Wayne Gretzky He was also criticized by the Canadian companions for his apparent support for Trump, who recently claimed to have asked Gretzky to become the next “Governor of Canada” after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would resign.

After Gretzky expressed support for “Canada remaining a separate country, rather than becoming a 51st state of dear and beautiful”, Trump said Gretzky a “free agent”.

The gold medals Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States celebrate after winning the world championship in ice dance during the ISU world skating championships of 2025 at the TD Garden in Boston on March 29, 2025. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Now, the United States have marked a victory in the greater sporting rivalry out of the kind concession of Bates and Chock, but the stakes will be higher in the winter Olympics in Milan Cortina next year.

Chock and Bates were part of the United States team who won the team’s gold at the 2022 games in Beijing after a prolonged investigation into Russian doping. But, for all their success, Chock and Bates never got up on an Olympic podium in ice dance, ending up in fourth place three years ago.

“I think the Olympic season certainly has a different weight than the other three years,” Chock said. “You have this incredible opportunity to reach the whole world and makes it very special because it amplifies our voices inside and outside the ice.”

The Associated Press has contributed to this report.

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