38 Facts About Scott Moir

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Scott Patrick Moir OLY is a Canadian retired ice dancer and coach.

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Virtue and Scott Moir are holders of the world record score for the now-defunct original dance.

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Virtue and Scott Moir were paired in 1997, at the ages of seven and nine.

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Virtue and Scott Moir are the youngest ice dance team ever to win an Olympic title, the first ice dancers to win a gold medal in their Olympic debut, and the first ice dance team to win Olympic gold on home ice.

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Virtue and Scott Moir continued to be one of the world's top ice dance teams after their first Olympic victory in 2010.

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In 2020, Virtue and Scott Moir were inducted to the Order of Canada "for their athletic excellence and for inspiring a new generation of figure skaters".

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Scott Moir was born in London, Ontario, Canada to Alma and Joe Scott Moir, and was raised in Ilderton, Ontario.

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8.

Scott Moir comes from a skating family, with his mother and aunt being coaches and both of his older brothers having previously skated competitively.

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Scott Moir attended Medway High School, in addition to an electronic learning high school called AMDEC, and eventually finished his secondary education following the 2014 Olympics.

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Scott Moir began skating at age three, and was initially encouraged by his mother to take up figure skating as a way to improve his performance in hockey, which he played competitively well into his teens.

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In 2004, Scott Moir began living in Canton, Michigan, in the US, to train under Igor Shpilband and Marina Zueva.

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Virtue and Scott Moir began skating together in 1997, at the ages of seven and nine respectively, paired together by his aunt Carol Scott Moir, who had been coaching both of them individually.

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Early in their career, after departing from their first skating club in Ilderton, Ontario, Virtue and Scott Moir trained in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, under Paul MacIntosh and Suzanne Killing.

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At the 2006 Canadian Championships, Virtue and Scott Moir placed 3rd and were named first alternates to the Olympic team.

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At the 2007 Canadian Championships, Virtue and Scott Moir won the silver medal, and repeated their bronze medal finish at Four Continents.

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Virtue and Scott Moir won their first Canadian national title at the 2008 Canadian Championships and thus earned spots for the Four Continents and World Championships.

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At the 2009 Four Continents Championships, Virtue and Scott Moir finished second behind their friends and training partners, Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White.

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In January 2010, Virtue and Scott Moir won their third national title at the 2010 Canadian Championships, placing first in all three segments of the competition and earning 221.95 points overall, which was 37.25 ahead of silver medalists Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier.

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Virtue and Scott Moir competed in the ice dance competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics from February 19 through 22.

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Scott Moir decided against a third surgery and chose other methods to overcome the problem.

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In late December 2011, the ISU acknowledged a scoring error in the free dance; had the scores been correctly calculated, Virtue and Scott Moir would have won that segment.

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Virtue and Scott Moir then competed at the 2012 World Championships and won the gold medal, finishing first in both segments ahead of silver medalists Davis and White.

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Virtue and Scott Moir withdrew from the 2012 Finlandia Trophy due to a slight muscle strain in Scott Moir's neck.

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At Skate Canada, Virtue and Scott Moir won the short dance with a score of 65.09, only 0.01 points ahead of Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte of Italy.

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At the Grand Prix Final, Virtue and Scott Moir took the silver medal behind Davis and White.

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26.

Virtue and Scott Moir placed first in the short dance at the 2013 Four Continents Championships.

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Virtue and Scott Moir finished second to Davis and White at the 2013 World Championships in their hometown of London, Ontario.

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Notably, after the individual short dance event where Virtue and Scott Moir were two points behind Davis and White, the creator of the Finnstep, ice dancer Petri Kokko, spoke out on Twitter to support Virtue and Scott Moir.

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Virtue and Scott Moir decided not to compete at the 2014 World Championships.

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At the 2017 Canadian Figure Skating Championships in January, Virtue and Scott Moir won their seventh national title with a combined score of 203.45, setting Canadian records in the short dance, free dance, and total points.

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Virtue and Scott Moir broke their own world record short dance score at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki.

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At the 2017 Grand Prix Final, Virtue and Scott Moir lost for the first time since their return to competition, finishing second to training mates and main rivals Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France, who had a half-point lead after the short dance.

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The 28-year-old Virtue and Scott Moir, 30, are two of Canada's most recognizable Olympians, and have been melting hearts since they won gold in Vancouver.

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Virtue and Scott Moir competed at the 2018 Canadian National Championships.

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In late 2013, they filmed a reality TV show, Tessa and Scott Moir, which focused on their training for the Olympics.

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Virtue and Scott Moir toured with Stars on Ice in Canada and Japan in the offseason since 2010 and during their break from competition.

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On February 2,2021, it was announced that Scott Moir had been appointed Head Coach and Managing Director of the new Ice Academy of Montreal campus in Southwestern Ontario, to be located in London, Ontario.

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Days later, it was announced that the American team of Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko would be moving to train under Scott Moir, leaving Scott Moir's former coach Igor Shpilband.