2008 World Silver medalists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada have pulled out of Skate Canada. According to CBC, Tessa has not fully recovered from an unannounced leg surgery due to overtraining. They're hoping that she'll be healthy enough for NHK, but this significantly lowers their chances of making the Grand Prix Final.
Wow, this is a surprise. Skate Canada's world team has been dropping like flies--Jeff Buttle retired, Langlois and Hay are injured, Mabee is out for the season, and now their ice dancing prodigees are out of their own Grand Prix event. I hope that Tessa gets better soon! I'm surprised that we didn't hear anything about her being injured, but maybe they wanted to keep it quiet to avoid all of that speculation stuff that goes along with injuries in skating. Now we'll have to wait a whole extra month to see whether or not they'll be able to live up to their previous season (which I expect they will).
On the other hand, this opens up a huge door for the American teams at the event, particularly Meryl Davis and Charlie White. They have a serious shot at the gold medal now.
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