Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean’s flawless gold medal performance at the Sarajevo Games in 1984 remains both the pinnacle of British ice dancing and the last moment the sport truly cut through with the public (the Boléro dance reached an estimated TV audience of 24 million people).
With 12 months to go until the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson are winning medals and turning heads in the sport of ice dancing.
Meet Fear and Gibson, the new Torvill and Dean of GB Olympic ice dancing With Milano-Cortina 2026 in their sights, the pair look ready to follow in the footsteps of their heroes.
“Connecting with the crowd is something that brings us so much joy and is a huge focus of our training and our performance,” says Fear, who was born in Canada but moved to the UK at the age of two.
Expectations may have risen for Fear and Gibson after winning a medal for a third consecutive European championship, but the pair are not focused on a place on the podium in 12 months’ time.
