Think of Olympic figure skating and the mind invariably turns towards Torvill and Dean, whose string of perfect sixes in Sarajevo in 1984 remains the unattainable peak to which subsequent British ice dancers have aspired.
John and Sinead Kerr, and Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland, have scraped top 10 finishes at the Games, while current number ones Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson last year became the first domestic duo to claim a world medal in the discipline since their illustrious predecessors over 40 years earlier.
