ICE SKATERS Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson failed to emulate the Second Coming of Torvill and Dean – after a horror showing on the ice.
The Power of Scotland was not enough to elevate the British pair from fourth spot after the into third place following last night’s free dance.
Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson had aspirations of emulating the great Torvill and Dean with their freestyle skating routineCredit: EPA
But they had a horror showing on the iceCredit: AP
Dressed in tartan and dancing to The Proclaimers and The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond, the British duo had hoped they might impress the judges at the Milano Ice Skating Arena.
Yet in a flawed routine, an over-rotation saw Fear, 26, almost fall to the ice and that ultimately meant they were unable to get into the medal positions.
It was one of the worst performances this season, and their score of 118.85 would have felt so painful.
As fun and fabulous as it had been, there were too many errors for the officials to ignore.
A decade into their partnership, , 26, and 31, will rue the fact they were unable to get into the medal positions.
Dame and Sir famously skated into the nation’s hearts with their perfect Valentine’s Day routine in Sarajevo in 1984, which made Ravel’s Bolero a national hit.
Ten years later, they came back into the Olympic fold for a second go, and they faced the music and danced their way to a bronze.
The two sporting icons – who had both made the visit to Milan – had been so supportive to the latest generation and were strongly willing on Fear and Gibson.
Lilah Fear was left in tears after the skate
But there had been trouble ahead for the duo because their best rhythm dance, which was choreographed to the , only scored 85.47 points.
In reality, the world No.1s had to be either second or third heading into the Wednesday show and unless there was a slip up, they were always going to find it a tough task to get on the podium.
Given that they won bronze at the 2025 World Championship in Boston, there is huge disappointment that they could not skate in the same direction as Torvill and Dean once did.
In the end, they fell to seventh, with their free dance score of 118.85 being the 12th overall, a shocking fall from grace.
The other British couple in the competition, Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez, came 17th.
France‘s Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry won the gold, Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates took silver and the bronze was earned by Canadians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier.
It means come the end of day five of the Milan-Cortina Games, Britain have yet to get their hands on any gongs.
Eze Chidiebere Paul
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