Torvill and Dean announce final dance on Olympic gold anniversary

Figure skaters Torvill and Dean have announced on the 40th anniversary of their gold medal-winning performance that next year will be the last time they dance together.

The duo have returned to Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where they danced the Bolero in the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean will skate together for the final time as part of a UK tour in 2025.

Torvill told the BBC: “The tour is the celebration of our careers.”

Torvill, who worked as an insurance clerk, and Dean, a former police officer, gave up their careers to skate together full-time

The Valentine’s Day Bolero performance in 1984 made the pair the highest-scoring figure skaters of all time for a single programme.

Judges gave them a dozen perfect 6.0s and six 5.9s, which included artistic impression scores of 6.0 from every judge.

The pair are marking the anniversary by returning to Sarajevo.

Things were different in 1984 - the Games was still amateur, the surroundings were grim and the celebrations low-key - champagne in paper cups with Princess Anne back in the village:

55 minutes of perfection.

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One of those, where were you moments, when an immortal event occurred.

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I am indifferent to sporting activity but occasionally something comes along that even I know was special. Torville and Dean’s win at the Olympics was one of those events.

So was that gymnast who got the first perfect ten, Nadia Comaneci and for entirely different reasons Bradbury’s win at the Winter Olympics. Just to remember their names shows how special they were.

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