Canadian figure skater Scott Moir: biography, personal life and interesting facts

Scott Moir, or, as it is still called, Moir, is a well-known Canadian-born greenhouse figure skater.

short biography

Moir Scott was born on 02.09.1987 in a small Canadian town called London and is located in the province of Ontario. About the guy little is known, because in the Russian-speaking environment, he is not very popular, but in his homeland he is a real idol, an icon of Canadian figure skating.

From an early age, Scott began to figure out skating, he was only 9 when he first started training in this sport. Initially, his partner was Virtya Tessa. Scott Moir became so much friends with her that they continued to build a joint sports career.

They worked tirelessly for several hours daily. For a long time a pair of figure skaters trained at the famous Soviet figure skater Marina Zueva, who herself has a large number of awards, and also has a great coaching experience.

Career

Scott along with his partner regularly participates in various sports events related to figure skating. Annually they occupy prestigious places in various kinds of sports, consistently showing high results and professionalism.

To date, the star couple Scott Moira and Tessa Virtue has countless all kinds of sports awards and achievements, including the gold of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. They also received silver medals at the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014. In addition, they are three-time world champions, this status they received in 2010, 2012 and 2017. They have silver medals of the World Cup 2008, 2011 and 2013.

This is not all the list of achievements of athletes, figure skaters. They have a large number of prestigious awards received at other sporting events.

Leaving the big sport and returning

The most famous pair of figure skaters in the US and Canada after the Olympic Games in Sochi took a short break in his sports career, but two years later Scott and Tessa returned to the big sport, it happened in 2016. Their return was very warmly received by the fans of the guys who Cheered for them at the 2017 World Cup. In response to fan love, they took first place in this championship.

In March of this year, the couple participated in the World Championships, held in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is noteworthy that at this World Cup the pair set a new world record in the sum of points and a short dance.

Scott Moir: personal life

The predilection for skating and the ability for this sport, most likely, went to Moira Scott from his mother, who was a speed skater.

Scott has two brothers, who are called Danny and Charlie. They, by the way, are also addicted to figure skating. In 2001, Danny even won the World Cup in the junior category.

Scott and Tessa began to train together, as mentioned above, at an early age, namely, from 1997. In addition to training on the ice, they are good friends in everyday life. They even live very close to each other, literally through several houses.

Such close friendly relations help them in their sports activities, because in dance it is very important that the partners deeply feel each other.

Such close relations of partners generate a lot of rumors and gossip. In the media now and then there is information that Scott and Tessa married, but there is still no official confirmation of these reports.

Nevertheless, young people clearly maintain extremely warm relations, where friendship borders on a love interest, and the line between them is very thin. Often, media representatives notice them hugging outside the training area.

The series "Tessa and Scott"

The popularity of these young people in the world of sports and show business in Canada and the US is so great that they have even been shot by a separate multi-series reality show, which is called "Tessa and Scott" (2014). Strangely enough, but the show is very much in demand in the homeland of the guys, and its ratings are very high.

At the moment there are already two seasons, and, perhaps, there will be a continuation. This TV-series is autobiographical and belongs to documentary films. However, there are many moments that are clearly staged.

The series is replete with scenes shot during training of a young pair of skaters. Beautiful dance frames and episodes make the show more vibrant and visually appealing. However, the emphasis in the project is made not so much on the sports component as on the more complete disclosure of the characters of the main characters, their personality, experience, problems, etc.

Thus, this project gives an opportunity for fans of figure skating to learn about their idols a little more, and fans of such shows to immerse themselves in the world of dance and choreography on ice.

Conclusion

Scott Moir, although he is an outstanding athlete and just an attractive and charming young man, but most people he is associated only as one of the dancing pair of figure skaters.

Perhaps this is correct, because almost all of his achievements are directly related to the name of Tessa Virtue, and in public he appears most often together with his partner. Therefore, it is not surprising that many people remembered the image of a pair of figure skaters, many of them see their idol without Tessa unaccustomed.

Scott's sporting achievements made him a real star and an idol of millions in Canada and beyond. Thanks to his fame he was often invited to television in various reality shows and programs. By the way, he recently began to take part in some other series, in addition to the above ("Tessa and Scott").

A pair of figure skaters continue to actively participate in various dance shows and figure skating competitions and to amaze and amaze with their professionalism and talent millions of people around the world. Being still quite young and already having such a large list of achievements, Scott and Tessa have great potential both in sports and in a television career, which they are already gradually and fairly successfully starting to build.