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Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. When we see them, our hearts soar. They are an amazing team – a dream team together. We owe much of Tessa and Scott’s comeback success to the support and guidance of Marie-France and Patrice. They seem to have a unique combination of being coaches, mentors, friends and have even previously competed against Tessa and Scott.

They are skaters who have many years of experience, using their knowledge to create some of the top teams competing today, including Tessa and Scott. Their own Olympic dreams were shattered at the 2006 Turin Olympics when a lift went horribly wrong just before they finished their original dance. Marie-France fell out of the final lift, landing hard on her hip. They never got to skate the free dance, Marie-France unable to weight-bear on the injured leg, having suffered a deep bone bruise.

Scott and Tessa have spoken about the support they have received over the years from Marie-France and Patrice. It's no secret how abandoned Tessa and Scott felt by their previous coach, though they are gracious students and they acknowledge and thank them; there is no hiding the pain of Sochi and the abandonment they felt when Marina didn’t support them and chose their competitors over them. They felt that their coach was “not in their corner”. They were alone and only had each other to rely on. They did well, they held their ground and became proud silver medalists.

Patrice, someone who was a mentor for them, came to every practice session and even visited them before their individual free dance in the warm up area. They knew they had his support as he wordlessly touched Tessa’s face. They had Patrice in their corner from the beginning, along with Marie-France. Coaches largely don’t speak to other teams but Patrice went against that - he knew his suppprt was needed.

To see the support they have provided to Tessa and Scott in their comeback is truly heartwarming and we as fans, owe them so much. This is the team that they wanted to be, these were the changes they wanted to make to their skating to come back and be the best. To come back and go for gold and to come back and win the gold. It was a lot of hard work, determination and surely an adjustment to new coaches but Marie-France and Patrice are the coaches that Tessa and Scott needed. They got Tessa and Scott to where they needed to be in the bid for an Olympic gold medal. Thank you Marie-France and Patrice! Thank you and we are glad you got to see your bright students win gold at Pyeongchang - and many other gold medals along the way during their almost undefeated comeback season. We miss seeing them together, we hope to see this team together again soon!

Can they BE any cuter?

Happy Flashback Thursday to this photo shoot.

Happy Moir Monday!

Anonymous said: “Dream a Little Dream is my favorite SD - they’re just so good and we have suspenders Scott too! They really should have won gold with it, Sochi hurts! This SD the same year as the Carmen FD shows how versatile they are. They can do any style well.”

We love Dream a Little Dream! It was an excellent performance for them in Sochi. We might be biased but we think they should have won gold too! But if they had we might not have the gift that is PyeongChang.

Tessa and Scott dancing the Foxtrot and Quickstep make us want to see them ballroom dance. You can imagine them on the dance floor being just as impressive as they are on the ice.

They set the tone from the beginning, Tessa’s smile, Scott’s wink. Their outfits are lovely, Tessa’s dress and hair and Scott’s outfit. Those suspenders! It’s a fun program that really showcases their skills.

Their lines are superb and their extensions are so in sync. They have incredible ice coverage, at one point stopping right at the edge. Their twizzles were perfect as were their edges. They move with such ease across the ice that you almost forget that they’re on skates!

As always they use their expressions to bring us in to this fun program. We feel how light on their feet they are as they transition into the Quickstep and then back into the Foxtrot to finish.

When watching Tessa and Scott, their reactions post program are just as special. The way Scott expressed his excitement and then grabbed Tessa in a hug was so heartwarming. They are such a connected team.