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By Ryan Pyette, QMI Agency
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QUEBEC CITY - There are a million little things to fret over when you're one of the चोटी, शीर्ष two ice dance teams in the world.

Falling flat on your back early in your short program isn't usually front and centre.

So when Scott Moir touched blades with partner Tessa Virtue and took the tumble that will probably cost them the only major figure skating competition they haven't won, the Canadian Olympic सोना medallist did what everyone who knows him best would've expected.

He turned the gasps into laughs Friday at the International Skating Union's Grand Prix final in Quebec...

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Ginger Rogers famously कहा she did everything फ्रेड Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.

Tessa Virtue does it backwards and on skates.

Backwards stroking is the basic component of figure skating, how to get from here to there on the ice, into most jumps and as undercarriage for the complicated contortions of ice dancing with all its footy flourishes.

Now, after years of hint-hinting, Virtue has got her very own Astaire clone on blades, the debonair boulevardier formally known as Scott Moir, man of many faces and thematic styles from classical to cha cha cha.

But their new homage to...