Figure skating controversy continues to heat up

One look at Canadian ice dancing champs Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir is enough to convince you the pair is destined to be together forever. Moir was nine and Virtue just seven when they were first matched up in a small town north of London, Ontario. However, after becoming the youngest ice-dance team to ever win Olympic gold, the fairy tale now appears to be over.

Moir ended his relationship with Virtue late Thursday night, telling the partner he’s skated with for 13 years that he’s leaving her for American skater Johnny Weir.

“I didn’t see this coming,” said a teary-eyed Virtue on CTV’s Olympic Morning. “We were so happy together until Johnny showed up in those skimpy outfits of his. He should be made to take a gender test, this is bad for figure skating’s image.”

Angered by Virtue’s comments, Weir lashed back. “It wasn’t Tessa criticizing my fucking of her partner, it was her criticizing me as a person, and that was something that really, frankly, pissed me off,” said Weir.

“Every little boy should be so lucky as to turn into me, after all, I am wrong-holing Scott Moir.”

Adam Lambert, an American Idol runner-up who’s somehow queerer than Clay Aiken, also jumped to Weir’s defence, calling the skater a “trailblazer.”

“Probably the wrong choice of words,” said Lambert just hours later. “I had no idea gay men have been figure skating for more than 100 years.”

For her part, Virtue seems to be moving on rather quickly. Just hours after the CTV interview, eTalk Daily’s Ben Mulroney spotted the 20-year-old canoodling with American gold medalist Evan Lysacek in Vancouver’s Olympic Village; a sight that didn’t go unnoticed by Russian silver medalist Evgeni Plushenko.

“He’s not man,” said the 27-year-old Russian. “I woo her with quad, yet she still chooses him because he’s better dancer. It’s not fair.”

No stranger to controversy himself, former world champion Elvis Stojko blasted the new relationship on his Yahoo blog. Under the heading ‘The Afternoon They Killed Figure Skating,’ Stojko complained, “How can you date Tessa Virtue when you don’t even try the quad?”

“Evan, you’re a great skater and all, but you’re not Tessa Virtue material.”

While Canadian Patrick Chan defended the American gold medalist, describing him simply as “a nice person,” a new YouTube video paints Lysacek as anything but.

During Joannie Rochette’s bronze medal winning performance Thursday night, a fan’s camera clearly captures Lysacek making advances at Rochette’s dad. While Lysacek was not seeing Virtue at the time, the incident still appears to be of poor taste under the circumstances.

“I should’ve known,” said Virtue. “Not doing the quad is always a dead giveaway.”