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<p>For many Canadians, there&#8217;s not much debate about who the most legendary Olympic duo of their lifetime is.</p>
<p>Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who won five medals (including two golds) across three <a href="https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/offside/category/olympics" target="_blank">Olympic Games</a> from 2010 to 2018, serve as an unparalleled partnership in the country&#8217;s sporting lore, and one that transcended the world of figure skating.</p>
<p>But after their retirement in 2019, many came to wonder if we&#8217;d ever see anything like them again.</p>
<p>Now, half of the iconic duo is trying to find that answer out directly.</p>
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<h2>Why is Scott Moir back at the Olympics?</h2>
<p>Now a skating coach, Moir is back at the Winter Olympics this year, although he isn&#8217;t exactly <em>just</em> pledging allegiance to Canada.</p>
<p>Moir, who is the managing director of the Ice Academy of Montreal campus in Southwestern Ontario, works with a whole host of skaters looking to realize their Olympic dreams.</p>
<p>And at Monday&#8217;s ice dance event in Milan, he was spotted wearing both the Canadian and American team outfits while supporting his teams. For the Americans, he&#8217;s teamed up with Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko, while he&#8217;s working with Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac in his home country.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Scott Moir is at his first Olympics as a coach, and as expected, he&#39;s wearing the colours of each country in kiss and cry. </p>
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<p>In any other sporting competition, it wouldn&#8217;t look weird for a coach born in a different country to work with athletes of a different nationality.</p>
<p>For example, every Stanley Cup-winning coach since 2018 (and many more before that) has been a Canadian coach on an American team, and nobody thinks twice about that discrepancy. We will admit, though, that coaching two countries during the same event is a little bit confusing.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just honoured to be part of it as a coach, just to be there to support my athletes is going to be huge honour for me,&#8221; Moir said <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpwkn7QWPRs" target="_blank">in a recent interview with CP24 alongside Virtue</a>.</p>
<p>Moir&#8217;s vast experience in the skating world should be a big asset to his athletes, especially when explaining how to deal with the pressure of a massive Olympic spotlight.</p>
<p>&#8220;They have worked tirelessly for years, sometimes decades, to get to this one moment and skating. It&#8217;s just mere minutes on the ice when everything is on the line,&#8221; Virtue added.</p>
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<h2>What is Tessa Virtue up to?</h2>
<p>Virtue is long retired from the skating world and has transitioned into a new career with Deloitte as an executive advisor.</p>
<p>But while she&#8217;s still rooting for Canadian athletes from afar, she also has a bit of a soft spot for her skating partner of more than two decades.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m cheering for the coach now,&#8221; Virtue told CP24. &#8220;I&#8217;m cheering for the guy at the boards putting out the teams to skate. I&#8217;m so proud of Scott.&#8221;</p>
<p>The duo haven&#8217;t skated together formally since their retirement, despite many pushes for them to get back out on the ice.</p>
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For many Canadians, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir end the debate of who the most legendary Olympic duo of their lifetime is.