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drove 4 hours all the way to New York City to see the countdown, it was the best day ✨ New York will always hold a special place in my heart, the city where I met Taylor 💓

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Favourite Interview

(I’m a bit late in getting this done. I can’t believe I was away from my laptop for the day, and so much goodness has come from the Roxanne documentary. That deserves its own post as I still have to watch it in full, and the from the snippets I’ve seen, it looks really good.)

Favourite interview – where to start? I’d have to pick something from one of their many post-comeback interviews. Scott just seems more free with his thoughts, less guarded in what he says. Tessa seems to mainly stay on script, but Scott has had some “Wait! What did he just say?!” moments. Overall they just seem so happy – with their team, their programs, with each other – and keeping their focus on enjoying the moments, learning, improving, doing this for themselves. And the intensity of staring at each other while talking has reached all new levels.

Canada in a day (technically not an interview):

S:  What do you love?

T: Canada!

S: Ooooohhhhh! I thought it was going to be me.

T: (Giggles)

Golden Skate interview (Hamilton stop of 2017 SOI tour):

Scott slipping into an Irish accent, hamming it up, and Tessa giggling for a good 20 seconds after that. Scott’s comments about Tessa really pulling him through at the Worlds, after he stumbled. Tessa saying she didn’t do anything and if that was a bad day for him, that was pretty good.

 The National (Dec 5 2017):

Scott not being able to live with himself if he ever lets Tessa down. Tessa quickly saying he couldn’t no, never.

Behind the scenes of the flag bearers photoshoot:

T: Every part of our athletic career has happened together. Every training session, every gym session, every on-ice competition, it sort of marks the culmination of our twenty-year partnership and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate that.

S: It’s been the honour of my life, I think, to work with Tessa and to share this moment with her and to see the athlete that she is, the person that she is, I can’t think of anyone more deserving.

Facebook Live interview at the flag bearers announcement

The interviewer saying they are incredibly beautiful people! T&S apologizing for having to keep the announcement secret, talking about how they’ll be carrying the flag in – whatever they do, it will be as a team, voicing support for all the Team Canada athletes and racing to get to as many other events as they can.

Day 3 - Favourite Kiss and Cry Moment

I guess this is not *technically* a kiss and cry moment but they were about to skate over to the K&C so I’ve decided that it still counts.

This was 2009 Nationals - their first competition since Tessa’s injury. Going into the 2008/2009 season we all thought that in order to win gold in Vancouver 2010 they had to win 2009 Worlds. That was how ice dance worked in those days. With the amount of pain that Tessa was in, they probably should’ve skipped the entire season all together. But I think that they felt like they had no choice.

They competed at Nationals, 4CC and Worlds. And you could see how difficult these 3 competitions were for them. There was talk that they had never done a full run-through of their Pink Floyd FD until Nationals. Tessa apparently had a wheelchair backstage at 4CC. You could see just how difficult this was for her.