Canadian Pair Pereira, Michaud Fall To Eighth - Beritaja

MILAN – Canadian fig skaters Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud fell to eighth successful pairs, while erstwhile world champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps placed 11th astatine the Milan Cortina Olympic Games connected Monday.

Pereira, of Milton, Ont., and Michaud, of Trenton, Ont., entered the nighttime successful 3rd aft a stellar, personal-best skate successful Sunday’s short program.

The duo scored 125.06 points successful their free programme to euphony from the movie “Gladiator,” finishing pinch 199.66 pursuing mistakes connected their jump sequence, propulsion triple loop, side-by-side triple salchow and decease spiral.

Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps vanished pinch 192.61 aft Stellato-Dudek’s fluke autumn connected the exit of a assistance costs them respective points successful the short program. The Canadians scored 126.57 successful their free skate to “Poeta en el Mar” by Vicente Amigo, almost 14 points beneath their season’s best.

Two-time world champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan captured gold, bouncing backmost from a shaky short programme to station a personal-best 231.24 pinch a clean, mesmerizing free skate (158.13) to tie a opinionated ovation.

Georgia’s Anastasia Metelkina and Luka Berulava won metallic pinch 221.75, while Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin took bronze (219.09) aft winning the short program.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Feb. 16, 2026.