Britain’s most noteworthy figure skating duo since Torvill and Dean are aiming to put sport back in spotlight of 1984More than four decades have come and gone since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean enamoured the world with their epochal Boléro routine at the 1984 Winter Olympics, collecting a slew of perfect 6.0s from the judges and a permanent place in British sporting lore. Their names remain shorthand for excellence in figure skating – especially in the UK, where the sport has long since faded from the spotlight.This week in Boston, however, another British ice dance duo are quietly building on a legacy of their own. When Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson take the TD Garden ice for the rhythm dance on Friday afternoon, they will do so as genuine medal contenders. After finishing fourth at the last two world championships, the pair arrive in Massachusetts in form: winners of both their Grand Prix assignments, bronze medallists at the Grand Prix final, and holders of seven national tit...
Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson, a British ice dance duo, are aiming for a breakthrough at the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston, while Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States seek their third consecutive world title. Fear and Gibson, who won bronze at the European championships, are being compared to British ice dancing legends Torvill and Dean and hope to inspire similar engagement with the sport in the UK. Chock and Bates face competition from Canadian and Italian teams, and Americans Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko.
