tessa virtue & scott moir

Alysa Liu leaving the ice after her free skate!

Full circle-ish

“If I miss skating? I miss Tess. With romantic partners, it was a bit difficult. After we retired, I think we came to appreciate that relationship even more in a different light. We’re very honoured when people are like: ‘Oh you two, you just look like you’re in love.’ Well, that’s good cause most of the time, those were the characters we were playing. But at the same time, there’s real love there. We love working together. We love to skate. We love each other.”

佐藤 駿 Shun Sato (JPN)

Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA)

Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN)

i am thinking of how in 2019/20 when morgan cipres was charged with soliciting a 13 yo at his rink, his then-coach was accused of helping cover that up. that coach received a six-month suspension and went straight back to coaching and is at the olympics right now. cipres’ ex-partner vanessa james pretended nothing wrong happened and she had a new partner for no reason whatsoever, and skate canada was perfectly happy to let her do this if james could get them an medal in beijing.

and now, six years later, the who’s who of ice dancing closed ranks around nikolaj sørensen even though skate canada suspended sørensen for six years. training mates still invite him to weddings. commentators still gloss over why fourner-baudry switched partners. meanwhile, the one person who used her public platform to call this out lost her job over it.