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 Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir skate in the senior ice dance short program at the Canadian National Figure Skating Championships in Mississauga, Ontario January 19, 2013. (REUTERS) |
MISSISSAUGA, ONT. - There's no longer some Tolstoy-calibre plot to Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir's short dance this season.
“It starts with a hug,” Virtue, the 23-year-old Londoner said, “and ends with a kiss.”
Well, almost.
The Olympic gold medallists and two-time world ice dance champions completed their runaway, 79.04-point performance Saturday afternoon at the Canadian championships inside the Hershey Centre by staring into each other's eyes, their lips a micro-millimetre apart.
“We weren't touching (lips)? Are you sure,” Moir, a 25-year-old Ilderton, Ont.-native, joked. “It was pretty close.
“We've got to save you something for worlds.”
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There it is. If the Canadian sweethearts are going to share a smooch – and not another accidental, awkward one like they did coming out of a lift three years ago – it will happen right at centre ice at London, Ontario's Budweiser Gardens in March to the closing strains of the Anthony Hopkins-penned “And the Waltz Goes On.”
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