Winter Olympics: Party on ice with Lion King, French magic ahead of Kamila Valieva’s return – Best of Beijing

BEST MOMENTS OF DAY 10 Hakuna Matata Ad/> If medals were awarded for soundtracks, Team GB’s drought would finally be over. But the IOC continue to insist that only the best ice dancers can win medals, lame, so instead Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson had to settle for a commendable top-10 finish despite tearing it up to the Lion King. And when we say top 10, you can assume we mean 10th dead on.

Beijing 2022Discovery+ drives Winter Olympics performance as streaming audiences surpass Pyeongchang 20188 HOURS AGO We do have one minor quibble with Fear and Gibson's routine. Circle of Life is the most overrated Disney song of all-time – where was Can You Feel The Love Tonight on Valentine’s Day? – but it’s a small blemish as their moves got more and more daring as He Lives In You crashed around the arena. Still, it was another day without a visit to the podium and, after Team GB’s two-man bobsleigh dreams faded before they had barely begun and Eve Muirhead’s curling rink fell to another damaging defeat, we’re officially in panic mode.

At the top of the standings in the ice dance, France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron finally secured the only major medal that had eluded them. Another world record display in the free dance helped banish memories of the former’s dress falling apart mid-routine at Pyeongchang 2018 as they stepped into the void left by Canadian legends Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. “We don’t realise it yet, it feels completely unreal,” Papadakis told Eurosport.