[virtchandmoir]

tessavirtue17: Full circle-ish

[maysileeewrites]

anyways, I’m going to rewatch VirtueMoir’s Moulin Rouge routine now in order to regain some of my sanity

[thatonekimgirl]

super emotional tessa during the pyeongchang olympic gold flower ceremony

bonus tear wipe:

[thatonekimgirl]

Setting the scene: Post-PyeongChang win, in the car en route to do media (for 20 hours straight). Buzzing with excitement (and armed with beer and cheeseburgers). Sending a video home to our families, thanking those that couldn’t be in Korea with us.

[mysticseasons]

Photos: Toshio Onda

[virtchandmoir]

tessavirtue17: February 20, 2018 Edit: @lemonsteaa

[blackwoolncrown]

I want all nonblack people to watch this video, especially white people.

This is the best video IMO that displays the depth of what it feels like to be Black in the midst of white supremacy.

This is the rage that burns in so many Black people and eats at us when it is not sufficiently soothed by our self restraint and years of learning to cope with and sit with us. This is the pain that shortens Black people’s very lives, that we smother each day. This is the justified yet unjustly ignored anger we have learned to hold and to aim and to deal with without breaking (too much).

This is the fire that those of you who are just showing up on the scene are learning to sit beside.

When you ask us ‘how we’re doing’, understand that this is the real core of it, every single day, and we have had to learn to laugh, to sing, to dance, to work, to grieve, to heal around heavy, heavy pain. I don’t get the feeling that y’all are expecting nor could you handle if we answered you like this. But I do feel like you should already know how we’re doing: we’re Black.

So y’all, sit with this video for a hot minute.

Kimberly Jones, you are a warrior. I feel every moment of this, every diaphragm flex, every tenuously tempered shout. And I hope that you are taking a break, and experiencing a moment of peace, because you deserve it.

[thatonekimgirl]

super emotional tessa during the pyeongchang olympic gold flower ceremony

bonus tear wipe:

[laurens-german]

“Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow.”

[icevirtuemoir]

The End.

[thatonekimgirl]

Leaving the ice with one last hug. 

[virtchandmoir]

tessavirtue: #VirtueMoir #XXII

[bandmates]

Three-time Olympians: Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir

“Should Pyeongchang be their last competitive performance, then let it stand as the shining example of everything that they are - graceful and beautiful dancers, aspiring teammates, respectful competitors, proud Canadians, and most notably, the best of friends. Because in the end, their skill and talent has made them champions, but their trust and belief in their [21]-year partnership has made them unforgettable.”

[anewbeginningagain]

Things about Tessa and Scott that can easily be put into words:

The most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history

The fourth most decorated Canadian Olympians ever

The first and only team to take ice dance gold in their Olympic debut

The youngest team to ever take ice dance gold at the Olympics

The first and only ice dance team to ever win Olympic gold on home ice

The first ice dance team from North America to take ice dance Olympic gold, breaking Europe’s 34-year streak

The first former junior world champions to win Olympic gold in ice dance

The first figure skaters in 38 years to win three Olympic golds

The second ice dance team to win three Olympic medals in ice dance

The second ice dance team to win two individual Olympic gold medals and the first one to do it in nonconsecutive Olympics

The first duo to carry the Canadian flag at an Olympic opening ceremony

The first ice dance team to receive a 10.0 for a program component score under the new ISU Judging System.

The first team to receive four 10.0s from the judges in any figure skating discipline (under the International Judging System)

The first team to break the 80-point mark in the short dance in an international competition (2016–17 Grand Prix Final).Current record holders for the highest technical score in a short dance with 44.53 established at 2018 Winter Olympics

Historical record holders for the original dance

The first and only ice dance team to achieve a Career Super Grand Slam under the current ISU judging system. They are the first and only ice dance team to win all major ISU championship titles including the Junior Grand Prix Series and Final, World Junior Championships, Grand Prix Series and Final, Four Continents Championships, World Championships, and Winter Olympic Games

The only ice dance team to win world championship titles and Olympic golds under both the old compulsory & original dance system and the new short/rhythm dance system

The most decorated Canadian ice dance team ever

The longest-standing ice dance team in Canadian history

The first and only Canadians to win the Junior Grand Prix Final

The first Canadians to win the Junior World Championship

The first and only ice dance team to win the World Championship and Grand Prix Final as both seniors and juniors

Three-time senior world champions

Seven-time senior world medalists

Eight-time Canadian senior ice dance champions

Ten-time Canadian senior ice dance medalists

Things about Tessa and Scott that are almost impossible to put into words:

How they make people feel when they skate

How they made people who never watched skating fall in love with them within 7 minutes in three different Olympic games

How they overcame injuries together and came out the other side as a stronger team

How their chemistry and connection are so strong that millions of people across the world watched them perform their SD for 3.5 minutes and were sure it’s the greatest love story of all time

How they never settled for being the best in the world and still kept taking risks and pushing the sport and everyone in it

How naturally gifted skaters they are 

How regardless of that they are still some of the hardest working skaters out there

How they feel the music, any music, in any style, and how they interpret it to perfection 

How they manage to stay partners and friends for over 22 years and still want each other in their lives and want to continue to work together

How they are each other’s biggest fans

How they root and care about the other’s success, both in their joined projects and their solo ones.

And for me - how they made me find my almost forgotten love for skating and how they made me feel watching them admiring the beauty of their art. 

They are retiring on their own terms, after achieving everything there is to achieve and breaking every record there was to break, and as a fan that’s all I could have asked for them. I’ve said before that a big part of me believes that they will be back, that this is not goodbye but a see you later kind of thing, but even if it’s not I’m one happy fan for having witnessed their comeback and the success they had and I can only wish for them to have everything they want and more. I know I will still be around to watch them flourish ❤️

[virtchandmoir]

Photos: Matthew King

[virtchandmoir]

mttthw: A few of my favourites, shot by @nikkiormerod. 🖤🖤🖤 < < < Swipe for more, and zoom in on those @swarovski lashes from the @theblondsny X @maccosmetics collaboration last year - no words. Photography @nikkiormerod Styling @jdbxo Makeup and Hair @mttthw

[mysticseasons]

Tessa Virtue - Thank you  #VirtueMoir #XXII Scott Moir - Thank you very much. #VirtueMoir #XXII