ISU Grand Prix final 2011 - SD

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Ginger Rogers famously said she did everything Fred 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...