Actually it's six perfect 6.0's, the scores Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean received for Artistic Impression after skating their long ice dancing program to Ravel's Bolero at the 1984 Winter Olympics. It's now been 30 years since that iconic performance on Valentine's Day and as I googled "Torvill and Dean" to try to learn what they've been up to for three decades, I was intrigued to see that they're back in Sarajevo this week, to skate a special benefit "encore" performance at the same ice rink where they won Gold in 1984. I'm hoping to be able to find a video of that performance later today or tomorrow; in the meantime here's the original:
Here's some more info about the two skaters who've been together since they were ten years old.
And this part is really cool: At the start of the video above, you'll see that the skaters had to wait a few minutes before starting their routine because a small girl was on the ice picking up flower bouquets that had been thrown down by spectators. During their return visit to Sarajevo this week. Torvill and Dean reunited with that girl, now in her thirties with a daughter of her own. Read about that here.
Update: It took a few days, but here's the encore performance.
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