Thirty-six years have passed since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean took ice skating into over 20 million British living rooms and lit up Sarajevo with a string of perfect sixes.

The pair’s interpretation of Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ remains one of the most famous of all British sporting moments, and the performance by which all subsequent generations of ice dancers continue to be judged.

Here, the PA news agency takes a look back at those handful of extraordinary minutes when Great Britain perched on top of the Winter Olympics world…

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