Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson’s free dance to Lion King soundtrack seals top-10 finish for GB duo at Winter Olympics

Team GB’s Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson secured a top-10 finish after free dancing to the Lion King soundtrack at the Winter Olympics. Ice dance duo Fear and Gibson, who came seventh at the 2021 World Championships, scored 76.45 in the rhythm dance on Saturday – enough for 10th heading into Monday’s free dance.

Ad/> That meant the Britons were first up in the penultimate group, and on what was the 38th anniversary of Torvill and Dean's gold medal-winning 'Bolero' skate, they began to the familiar sound of the ‘Circle of Life’ – the iconic opener to Disney’s Lion King. Beijing 2022Decision in Kamila Valieva case expected imminently2 HOURS AGO The expressive routine was enough to seal a place in the top 10, a score of 115.19 — technical elements 63.21, presentation 51.98 with zero deductions – enough to leapfrog USA’s Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker.

“The bosses like it! They feel like they’ve nailed it,” Simon Reed said on Eurosport’s commentary. “It looks like they’re going into the lead here, above the Americans, certainly technically.” Reed and co-commentator Chris Howarth, a former GB figure skater who competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, both agreed it was a performance “of two halves” from the British pair.

“I just felt it didn’t really happen in the first half,” Reed said. “It was only in the second half that they had character, and they had real character.