Winning Britain’s first medal on the world stage in over four decades would be a lot for anyone to take in. For Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson, the first to stand on a podium in any figure skating discipline since the legendary Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won ice dance gold in 1984, the scale of their achievement still hasn’t hit home.
“Everytime I hear that sentence I’m like wait, that’s us?!” Fear tells The Independent, only a couple of days after the pair sealed ice dance bronze at the World Championships in Boston. “It doesn’t feel real yet. In the moment when we found out that we got a medal it was just the craziest feeling I’ve ever had in skating and the biggest feeling of celebration so far. [In the] aftermath, we haven’t really stopped, so we’re just riding the wave. I’ve been waiting for it to sink in – I'll let you know if it does!”
