Torvill and Dean’s stunning routine remains perfection on ice, 40 years on

Forty years of salchows and sequins have failed to diminish the memory of the most seminal moment in figure skating history.

Olympic medals have been won and lost, oceans of tears have been shed in the ‘kiss-and-cries’, quads have been celebrated, kneecaps have been clubbed, strawberry desserts have been allegedly ingested.

But Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean’s performance to Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ at the 1984 Sarajevo