It was all set up so nicely. “Magic Monday” was supposed to be the day Team GB had its best ever day at the Winter Olympics, racking up two freestyle medals and guaranteeing another by reaching the final of the curling.
But Kirsty Muir just couldn’t nail her run in the ski slopestyle, teenage sensation Mia Brookes left it too late to grab a medal in the snowboard Big Air, and Britain’s rampant mixed doubles pair ran out of steam in the curling semi-finals.
And then what became “Maudlin Monday” was followed by “Woeful Wednesday”. In an arena on the southern outskirts of Milan, the final hope of a British medal in the first five days of the Games evaporated in a missed twizzle. Yes, you are reading that right. A twizzle.
“I can’t believe I just did that,” said a tearful Lilah Fear, whose error on a difficult technical move within the first minute of the free dance cost her and dance partner Lewis Gibson any chance of a medal in the ice dance.
It wasn't to be for Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson – they've missed out on winning Great Britain's first medal of these games, but they still entertained the crowd in Milan #Olympics #MilanoCortina2026 pic.twitter.com/bF4zK73UiE
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) February 11, 2026“I feel so devastated. I feel horrible. I really am in shock and I’m just replaying it in my head and it’s just a shame. It’s going to be a while until I process it.”
It was little consolation that even a season’s best performance on Wednesday night would only have been good enough for fourth: the same crushing position as medal hopes Muir, Brookes, and Bruce Mouat and Jen Dodds.
History on the line
Fear and Gibson had raised hopes of a first figure skating medal for Britain in 32 years by claiming a bronze at the world championships in Boston last March, as well as twice European silver.
But they were left with work to do after a rhythm dance score of 85.47, a point short of their season’s best in what is generally their stronger of the two categories and only good enough for fourth place at the halfway point of the competition.
Even so, it was widely seen as Britain’s best chance to win silverware in this event since Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean took bronze at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer. The legendary dance partners, now closer to 70 than 60, were even in attendance to watch.
Christopher Dean and Jane Torvill (back row, left to right) were both in attendance on Wednesday night (Photo: Getty)It was right that they were, given Gibson and Fear’s accession to the global stage can be directly attributed to their performances; growing in south-west Scotland, Gibson says he was inspired to take up skating by watching Torvill and Dean present the very first series of Dancing on Ice, a show on which he would go on to feature in.
Fear meanwhile was born in Connecticut to Canadian parents, who moved to the UK when she was just a year old and learned to skate just off Bayswater Road in Notting Hill, and also idolised the British pair, who won a famous gold at Sarajevo 1984 and then bronze in 1994.
‘One of the toughest moves’
Neither Fear or Gibson were alive when the legendary Brits last climbed the Olympic podium, but when they did, no one who also saw John Curry or Robin Cousins win gold in 1976 and 1980 respectively would have expected Team GB to have to wait so long for any more silverware, a wait that will now go on for at least another four years.
For their part, they did their best to struggle through. Fear’s error on the second element of a four-minute routine condemned their score – they finished seventh overall – and after a brief wobble, she recovered impressively to rock the rest of an unashamedly Scottish dance to the tune of The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond.
Fear (second from the left) and Gibson (second from the right) could not hide their emotion after their routine (Photo: AFP)But after the music stopped, they both knew they would be going home empty-handed. When their scores hit the big screen, both stared into the distance, unable to comprehend that four years of hard work had come unstuck in one single twizzle.
“I’m gutted,” said Jon Eley, performance director for British Ice Skating.“For them to skate as well as they did all the way through, other than one slight mistake, I am gutted for them.
“It was at the end of a sequence of a twizzles, which had cost them on points.
“They practice it multiple times a day. It’s one of the toughest moves in ice dance. They are pushing the limits with all the different things they do.”
After the disappointments earlier in the week, Team GB chef de mission Eve Muirhead had urged everyone to “stay positive” four times in about as many sentences.
With a lofty target of 4-8 medals now looking a tough ask even at the lower end, that refrain may need twizzling.
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