Lia Pereira/Trennt Michaud: “Every day is a good day”

Since teaming up in 2022, Lia Pereira, 22 and Trennt Michaud, 29 are a top Pair Skating couple. While she switched from singles to pairs, he previously competed at the World level with Evelyn Walsh. The Canadians skated off with their first World medal in Prague, the bronze. At their first Olympic Games in Milan, they were third in the Short Program and finished eighth overall.

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First of all, congratulations again, that was a perfect ending of the season for you. It was your first world medal. Now that a few days have passed, how did you process this event, this medal?

Trennt: I mean, it's still pretty cool when I actually think about it being a world medalist now. It's something that obviously we've dreamed of and have thought since I started skating with Lia that this was a potential. But, when it finally happens, it still is really nice.  It's been interesting.

Lia: We've received lots of congratulations which has been very nice even from fellow competitors but everyone kind of keeps saying - this is forever. You are forever the World bronze medalist and this doesn't ever go away. That is a really cool thing to remember to be excited in the moment but to also just recognize that whether we compete for the next 10 years or we don't compete again this is this is forever. It’s really a cool thing but we were just very proud of our preparation, not only physically but mentally. Just the communication has grown stronger between each other and our team that supports us for the past four years. Whenever people ask us what our goals are we have these scores and placements in mind but we never try to use that as our driving force because we know that's out of our control. You can look at this event, you can look at any event sometimes there's stand-out skates and they're in fifth place. You don't have control over that but you have control over what we can do.