Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir win third world figure skating championship
HELSINKI — Scott Moir’s near-tumble to the ice in the free dance on Saturday elicited a loud gasp from the crowd at Hartwell Arena — and a spur-of-the-moment joke from partner Tessa Virtue.
Their gorgeous program could have gone south in a hurry, their run at gold could have looked more like silver. But the Canadians recovered as if nothing had happened.
Moir said Virtue was to thank for her swift wit.
“Thank God my partner is awesome,” Moir said. “She had a really funny joke as soon as I got back up that snapped me back into character. She said, ‘That was a very dramatic movement.’ I kind of smiled out of the corner of my mouth. I thought that that was super-cute. She gave me a couple more of these (arm squeezes) during the program.