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Canadian ice dancers overcome hair-raising wardrobe malfunction

IFS Magazine on Twitter. Maybe that helped them. Nicknamed P2, they have a knack for entertaining boisterously.

Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier won the silver while overnight leaders Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of the US settled for the.

Bonnie is dressed in a Canadian team T-shirt and hat, the guest of honour at an Olympic viewing party. She’s surrounded by friends in her Colorado Springs home. Bonnie was the only member of the large Gilles family who wasn’t in Gangneung Arena to see Piper make her Olympic debut in February. She was in the late stages of cancer, a brain tumour having robbed her of her personality — and the ability to speak and walk. She must have known.

By the Olympics, Bonnie had developed a second tumour. By the time Gilles and Poirier skated to sixth place at the world championships in Milan in March, she had a third. Gilles, from Toronto, and Poirier, a year-old from Unionville, Ont. With the departure of Olympic and world champs Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir they’re expected to challenge Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje for top spot in the country over the next few years heading into the Beijing Olympics.

Gilles said she hopes to honour her mom — “my hero, my motivator, my biggest critic, my biggest supporter” — through her skating. Bonnie put all five of her kids in a variety of sports in Rockford, Ill. Gilles became a Canadian citizen just in time for the Sochi Olympics, thanks to her grandmother who was from Sarnia, Ont.