Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir reunite at Winter Olympics in Italy
It turns out Canada’s favourite Olympic duo was able to link up at the Winter Olympics again one more time after all.
Though it’s been seven years since Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir competed together in ice dancing, the duo found themselves back together for the same Olympic Games again.
The five-time Olympic medallists last competed together on the sport’s biggest stage as the gold-medal winning duo at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games, before officially hanging up the skates in 2019. And no, they aren’t about to stage an improbable Olympic comeback, but they did get the chance to at least spend a little bit of time together.
On Instagram on Monday, Virtue uploaded a picture of the two of them on the ground in Milan, having just arrived at the Olympics today.
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“Full circle-ish,” Virtue captioned the post.
What are the duo doing at the Olympics?
In 2022, the duo had teamed up together to work for CBC for their Olympic commentary team at the Beijing Winter Games.
This time around, Moir was actually coaching two pairs of ice dancers: Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko from the United States, and Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac from Canada.
Virtue, meanwhile, appears to be there as part of a brand deal. On Sunday, she posted a photo of a suitcase full of Adidas products and tagged the brand, whom she has had a long-standing partnership with.
The duo was close to missing each other at the Games, with Moir scheduled to head back to Canada after the ice dancing concluded earlier this week.
“I was texting Tessa on the way to the airport about how strange it is to be at an Olympics without her. It’s weird to get on the bus … our sport experience is so tied together. We’re literally two ships passing in the night. It’s too bad we won’t get to cross paths,” he told the National Post earlier this month.
So while we might not ever get to see the two skate together competitively again, at least Monday’s post provided a bit of Olympic nostalgia for a lot of Canadian fans.
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