Team Olympic team winners Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have won their second gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Games. Eight days after their success in the team competition with Canada, the world champions also won the ice dance competition.
After never before having scored 83.67 points in the short dance on Monday and 122.40 points in the freestyle final, Virtue/Moir put the French European champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron (205.28) in second place with a total of 206.70 points. Bronze went to the US siblings Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani (192,59).
The German champions Kavita Lorenz and Joti Polizoakis from Oberstdorf reached the 16th place with 150.49 points (59.99+90.50). For Virtue/Moir, it was already the fifth Olympic medal for Virtue/Moir after ice dance gold in Vancouver in 2010 and silver in ice dancing and in the team competition in Sochi in 2014.
“Incredible. It was a special moment to be the last couple to get on the ice. We had a lot of pressure, but I am totally happy with our performance,”Virtue said.