Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have a pair of gold medals, and now they’re going to get to hang out with their favourite band in the Olympic village.
The Arkells are a Canadian rock band out of Hamilton, Ont., and they’re also great friends of the Canadian flag bearers.
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨@TessaVirtue & @ScottMoir are making us proud at the Olympics & have the inside scoop on YOUR SHOW OF THE SUMMER.
— ARKELLS (@arkellsmusic) February 9, 2018
Arkells present The Rally w/ special guests @coldwarkids / @thatgirlbishop / @ellevatorband
June 23 / #HamOnt / Tim Hortons Field #ArkellsRally pic.twitter.com/4VhxQJxXb5
Last week, they retweeted a video posted by Yahoo Canada Sports that featured their song ‘Knocking At The Door,’ while Michael Kingsbury and one of the Dufour-Lapointe sisters shared a hug.
The Arkells added the comment “we need to go to Korea stat and play this for our (Canadian) Olympians.”
This is why we love the Olympics 🇨🇦#PyeongChang2018 @MikaelKingsbury @3_SDL pic.twitter.com/k04FU4XopZ
— Yahoo Canada Sports (@YahooCASports) February 14, 2018
The tweet sat silently for nearly two days, but then Air Canada jumped into action with the ultimate Canadian move.
“I think we can make that happen,” the airline tweeted. “What do you think? Bonne idée??”
I think we can make that happen. 🇨🇦✈️🇰🇷🎶 What do you think? Bonne idée?!! @TeamCanada
— Air Canada (@AirCanada) February 16, 2018
Tellement sérieux! Can you be ready to fly to Korea on Wednesday?
— Air Canada (@AirCanada) February 16, 2018
Air Canada and the Arkells, whose Twitter account is run by leadman Max Kerman, exchanged a few more tweets and looped Team Canada in on the plans.
“Guess Team Canada will see you guys soon,” Team Canada tweeted, making things absolutely official.
👀
— Team Canada (@TeamCanada) February 16, 2018
🙌
🇨🇦🛫
🛬🇰🇷
Guess #TeamCanada will see you guys soon 👋 https://t.co/YjPT8ZK4Hv
Tessa Virtue could barely contain her excitement.
“YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is beyond exciting. Arkells have been the soundtrack to my Olympic experience thus far… it will be such a thrill to see them live. Thank you, Air Canada!”
YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 This is beyond exciting. Arkells have been the soundtrack to my Olympic experience thus far .... it will be such a thrill to see them live. Thank you, @AirCanada !
— Tessa Virtue (@tessavirtue) February 16, 2018
The tickets are booked and the Arkells will be heading to PyeongChang on Wednesday, just in time for the final few days of the Olympics.
Hopefully some live pump up music can push our Canadian athletes to an extra couple of medals before all is said and done in South Korea.
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