--- title: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir Are the Internet's Valentines description: Olympic skaters Virtue and Moir aren't dating, but that isn't stopping the internet from celebrating Valentine's Day on their behalf. canonical: https://time.com/5157649/tessa-virtue-scott-moir-valentines-day/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-14T15:52:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:20.295Z og:title: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir Are the Internet's Valentines og:description: The Olympic skaters may not be dating, but they still give fans hope for love og:url: https://time.com/5157649/tessa-virtue-scott-moir-valentines-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc76be5b69648e53/6989277ccf40a844a0c4b545/tessa-virtue-scott-moir1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir Are the Internet's Valentines twitter:description: The Olympic skaters may not be dating, but they still give fans hope for love twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc76be5b69648e53/6989277ccf40a844a0c4b545/tessa-virtue-scott-moir1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir's Platonic Relationship Can't Stop the Internet From Celebrating Valentine's Day on Their Behalf > Sponsored content. 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MONEY_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 14, 2018 3:52 PM UTC  GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 12: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada compete in the Figure Skating Team Event ? Ice Dance Free Dance on day three of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 12, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images) GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 12: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada compete in the Figure Skating Team Event ? Ice Dance Free Dance on day three of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 12, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images) XIN LI—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 14, 2018 3:52 PM UTC If this year’s [Winter Olympics](http://time.com/5157237/shaun-white-united-states-gold-medals/) in PyeongChang have taught us anything so far, it might be what love looks like. Well, the platonic love between longtime ice dancing partners [Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir](http://time.com/5144173/virtue-moir-free-dance-2018-reactions/) of Canada, anyway. The gold medal pair won the internet’s heart this year with a ravishing dance in the team competition to a dramatic medley from the _Moulin Rouge_ movie, demonstrating serious chemistry. (For longtime followers of their career, their palpable connection is no surprise.) So their fans — new and old — can’t help but wish them the very best on [this Valentine’s Day](http://time.com/5157438/us-figure-skating-married-couple/) as they’re together across the world in PyeongChang, even though they’ve [regularly dispelled relationship rumors](http://time.com/5144416/tessa-virtue-scott-moir-relationship/) over their two decades as skating partners. The internet wants what it wants, and in this case, it’s to celebrate true love on ice. Maybe, as one Twitter admirer noted, “love is simply friendship set on fire.” Virtue and Moir probably have more important things on their minds than Valentines, though: the ice dancing short programs and medal finals are still ahead on Feb. 18 and 19. > [](https://twitter.com/davidlawrences/status/963673605858119682) > [](https://twitter.com/k%5Fbeccs/status/963609211732090880) > [](https://twitter.com/aienlalima/status/963751971898273792) > [](https://twitter.com/rileykay12/status/963555873598689282) > [](https://twitter.com/Haha%5FBrooklyn/status/963609963624099841) > [](https://twitter.com/softhipster/status/963575051529355264) > [](https://twitter.com/shaunapiranha/status/962690319916642306) > [](https://twitter.com/kimmynitty/status/963773269953323008) > [](https://twitter.com/SaraNetzley/status/963795529644814338) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5157649/tessa-virtue-scott-moir-valentines-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5157649/tessa-virtue-scott-moir-valentines-day/"},"headline":"Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir's Platonic Relationship Can't Stop the Internet From Celebrating Valentine's Day on Their Behalf","datePublished":"2018-02-14T15:52:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:20.295Z","description":"Olympic skaters Virtue and Moir aren't dating, but that isn't stopping the internet from celebrating Valentine's Day on their behalf.","url":"https://time.com/5157649/tessa-virtue-scott-moir-valentines-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc76be5b69648e53/6989277ccf40a844a0c4b545/tessa-virtue-scott-moir1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc76be5b69648e53/6989277ccf40a844a0c4b545/tessa-virtue-scott-moir1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 3","caption":"Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 3","creditText":"XIN LI—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5157649/tessa-virtue-scott-moir-valentines-day/","name":"Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir's Platonic Relationship Can't Stop the Internet From Celebrating Valentine's Day on Their Behalf"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Is the Insane Amount of Money It Takes to Become an Olympic Figure Skater","description":"MONEY","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Fjosyvc8/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-02-09T20:24:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Fjosyvc8.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5157649/tessa-virtue-scott-moir-valentines-day/","duration":"PT1M36S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5157649/tessa-virtue-scott-moir-valentines-day/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```