For almost 40 years Bolero represented perfection on ice. In Beijing it was the soundtrack to a car crash.
Kamila Valieva, the secondary school kid with the positive drugs test, was so sure a thing they postponed the medal ceremony to save having to later ask for hers back.
Yet when Ravel’s haunting orchestral struck up, the one synonymous with Torvill and Dean and their 12 maximum 6.0s in Sarajevo all that time ago, it signalled only an implosion.
