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You’d never know it, considering the chemistry between Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir as they skated to gold this week, but a little over a year ago, Moir was training alone—using a hockey stick and a sandbag as a stand-in for his partner.

Back then, Virtue could “barely walk,” says Lynn Lee, a close friend of the Moirs.

We're actually talking most of the way through the program, just little key words.

“And he hung up the phone.”“I think she's still kind of heartbroken from that phone call hang up,” Moir laughed.

Moir’s mom Alma and her twin sister Carol both skated competitively, then later coached; his older brothers Danny and Charlie also competed.

“I never coached my own boys,” says Alma, chuckling. I coached her daughters—that was our trade-off.” It was Carol who first thought of pairing Virtue, from nearby London, with Moir.

Unknown to the average onlooker, the two say there's a lot of improvisation that goes on when they're gliding around the ice.“Oh god yeah, that's the fun,” Moir said.

“We can talk and you can't see me, I'm very good at that.