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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (respectively, born May 17, 1989, London, Ontario, Canada; born September 2, 1987, London, Ontario, Canada) are Canadian ice dancers who became the first North Americans to win the Olympic gold medal in ice dancing when they triumphed at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. The pair subsequently won a second Olympic gold medal at the 2018 Winter Games. Virtue and Moir began skating together when they were aged seven and nine, respectively. Moir’s aunt, who was also his skating coach at the time, thought that the two similarly small, athletic children would make a ...(100 of 526 words)

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