'A little alternative'- skating star Lilah Fear on bringing Disney and classic rock to the Beijing Olympics

Lilah Fear wants to entertain fans all over the world when she and partner Lewis Gibson step onto the Beijing ice at next month's Winter Olympic Games. Fear, 22, and Gibson, 27, were among the first Team GB athletes to seal a spot on the British plane — with the duo set to compete in the ice dance competition when the showpiece kicks off in under ten days' time. Ad/> American-born Fear, who grew up in London and is a member of the Alexandra Palace London Skating Club, has enjoyed a previous taste of the Olympics — an experience that fuelled her desire to one day head there as a competitor.

Beijing 2022Torvill and Dean's brilliant Bolero firing figure skater Gibson to Olympic big timeYESTERDAY AT 18:30 Fear said: «We actually went to PyeongChang as part of Team GB's Ambition Programme. »That was a really valuable experience for us. We got to feel that tangible energy in the arena and it made us so excited and so hungry to qualify one day ourselves and work as hard as we possibly could.

«When we got selected, I got very emotional because it's a moment that I dreamed of, and for it to have actually happened, I could't quite believe it. »I was just so proud of our team and so, so grateful. Lewis and I had a huge hug and just said to each other: 'this is actually happening.'" She added: «I think there's always the awareness that people are watching and that we've had a lot of experience with the heightened emphasis of the cameras when there were no spectators at the World Championships.