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  • Thanks so much for posting this. Before the '84 Olympics, I'd never seen ice dancing. What an introduction!!!

  • karen fuck you, every girl and woman loves chris, janeis the best, not you. chris end it, you are so sexy. we love you, and jane.

  • That moment when they show the second set of marks. Heart stopping.

  • that was the awesomest ice skating perfomance in the olympics history - maddy, age 8 2011

  • Thanks for posting! I remember watching this. You'd think they were collecting the whole set of perfect scores from the judges. This is the zenith of ice dancing. Torvill and Dean were robbed in their Olympic comeback.

  • i get goose bumps every time i watch them skate!

  • This is phenomenal and it is so beautiful. As a Brit this means so much to me and i adore Jayne & Chris - a gold medal just doesn't cut it. Torvill & Dean are my inspiration, i love them.

  • I'm not British but this is the greatest moment in Winter Olympic history.

  • Incredibly lovely.

  • I watch it over and over and over again....year after year after year.

    It measn something.

  • There has never been anyone as good as they are...and never well be. THEY WERE THE GREATEST!!!!!!!

  • I just realized there are no twizzles; I guess this wasn't a required element back then? And look at all the flowers they used to get! I guess it's more efficient to get runners to pick up all that stuff now, but it's so much more compelling when the skaters themselves leave the ice with their arms loaded with gifts.

  • THE BEST.

  • amazing!!!

  • Awesome......will never be bettered. It might be equalled but never bettered!

  • I had to look at it again. We have a new Torville & Dean. They are Canada's Virtue & Moir who just won GOLD in Vancouver. They too are artistic and wonderful and so was their routine!

  • True that! Tess and Scott were so graceful, yet they put so much speed into their movements. They are such powerful and beautiful ice dancers.

  • Amazing!! I remember that!!

  • After all these years, their perfomance is still spellbinding. Torvill & Dean were perfection.

  • It's classic !

    Ginger & Fred on the ice !!!!

  • thank you to youtube-- if i could iwould have all the wannabe skaters watch this -it might make them realise that the music /dance must be one--

  • That still has to be the best pairs ever - i rember seeing them live - absolutely awesome and risk takers that you just dont see in the Winter olympics now.

  • Absolute fluid perfection. So glad to see it again.

  • I remember that night like it was yesterday. I loved them then and now...truly a great moment in Ice Danciing. They were the greatest!

  • this is the best ice dance ever - you say torvill and dean to any english person and the first thing they will say is Bolero. it is the most beautiful and specatular pieces of ice dancing i have ever seen and as far as im concern Jayne and Chris need to be honoured and made Kinght Commander and Dame Commander of the British Empire. anything less is just a slap in the face

  • whether it's the best ice dance ever performed is up to debate, but one's thing for sure, this is the one that everyone remembers, and will remember.

    a perfect performance from two senastional skaters to a sensational piece of music.

  • You can't hurry a masterpiece.

  • Torville and Dean are unmatched. This goes down in Figure Skating history as one of the most beautiful ice dances of all time. Gracefully Brilliant!

  • No one have ever surpassed them! They are great! It is a gift of GOD!

  • It sure is a gift from God! They are awesome!

  • Jeez. This was a over a quarter of a century ago. And I was THIN.

  • ??????

  • Fantastic thats all i can say.about it. And i cant describe the feeling it gave me watching Torvil and Dean perfoming it. I'd never been so moved

  • PERFECTION!!!!

  • I just watched this again for the first time since the Olympics and it made me cry. Perfection!

  • 当時感動したのをおほえてます。

  • been watching skating on ice .well done jane and chris you still great after 25 years

  • Great - Wonderful - unbelievable - absolute amazing !!!

    in both notes the best marks ever !!!

    THIS WAS A DREAM ON ICE !!!!

  • I am Japanese and I wathed this in Japan at that time. This pair is such a legend and I will never forget them with the music of Bolero.

  • Makes me proud to be British and have them representing us :D

    x

  • always brings a tear to my eye even now 25 years later, music and chemistry between them is still magic

  • I've watched this routine countless times and I don't think I'll ever tire of watching it. Amazing!

  • Same here. I started skating in 1980 at the age of 25. I still have the same boots! I only go about once a year now, but can still do an Ena Bauer.

  • it is amazing that they could do that and it was just one of them moments to get the routeen perfect and no one will ever do that again

  • Its mesmerising - and the spine tingling muic of belero along with the skating is still amazing even 25years after they done it!!!

  • Does anyone know how i can download this vid?

  • Gives me chills!! Absolutely amazing!!

  • Still gives me goosebumps, even after 25 years!

  • truly amazing, makes me proud to be british

  • Pięknie :))

  • still amazing !....love it

  • beautiful....graceful....emoti­onal....one of a kind.

  • Não canso de ver esse vídeo! Lindo e perfeito!!!

  • ABSOLUTE perfection on ice! Still causes goosebumps to watch this, bravo!!!!

  • They have forever changed ice dancing!!

  • I've just watched this and I haven't seen it for years. I'm not an avid fan of ice skating but I wanted to see this because there was a programme on ITV today and it triggered a memory. It gave me goosebumps at the Olympics and it still does now. Well done JT and CD! Just brilliant.

  • 17th oct

    this is amazing work

  • Did you know that olympic rules state that a skating piece must last no less than 3 mins 50secs and no longer than 4 mins 10 secs. The music for this piece lasts 4 mins 28 secs. The rules decree that the performance starts from the moment the blades touch the ice to get round that neither Jayne nor Chris' skate blades touch the ice for the first 18 secs. Check it out.

  • under the current rules, times were different back then

  • No one will ever top this performance.

    It was the best moment of olympic history in my point of view.

    We as Great Britain have our moments!

  • Sit back,relax and enjoy one of the greatest sporting performances of ALL time.Flawless and Faultless,NEVER to be repeated.

  • spectacular

  • Ahazzar - I'm from Derby originally - they were from the next town over - Nottingham. I saw their winning performance live on TV - a thrill of a lifetime!!! Because of my interest in ice-skating I've got my 9 yr old Grand-daughter involved - She loves it!!! She is having one on one lessons and is soon to get into competitions. Fortunately we have a rink 5 mins from our house.

  • tichwood thought it was to good to be true an american saying someone who isn't american are good.

  • I am a fan of ABBA thru to Slipknot, Mozart (OOh that Moonlight Sonata) to Metallica ( I Disappear..do I need to say anymore!) but... this moves me to tears everytime I watch it. Thank you Torvill and Dean for sheer drama and utter perfection not just on ice, but anywhere.This is a part of my personal history that I truly treasure, as I remember watching the final with my mom and dad. Thank you jaxomsyd for posting x

  • Beethoven wrote the Moonlight Sonata

    ;)

  • This is the first time i've watched the entire routine for many many year, i was just as stunned by it now as i was backin the 80's.. beautiful.

  • how fab are they!! they make the hairs stand up every time i watch this, thanks for posting a great piece of history.

  • i am soooooooo proud 2 b british !!!

    i would love to be able to skate like that !! there brill !

  • I watched it at the on the tv, it is brilliant still.

  • Amazing performance ,, absolutely fantastic ,, they were worth to win by far!! well done ,, Brings back lots of nice memories! xxx

  • BRILLIANT!!! Even after all these years~ So enjoyed watching it again. I saw them live in NY skating Bolero ... what a thrill that was.

    Thanks for posting this!

  • tichwood it is unusual to get americans finding them brilliant,i am only 20 and i missed the best years I find this faultless never seen anything like this since.I watch them all the time on dancing on ice you might not have it there.best one was to john lennon imagine on season 2 watch it if you can they are still magig

  • I saw this live!! so yeah im old!! but thank you for posting. never thought i would see this again. its simply the best ever!! and so are they.

  • I love that! I think it is the best ice performance Ever!!! I was not alive when they did it live but this is the 1st time ive watched it!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

  • they were doing so well until he beat her up and they both fell over at the end ! HaHa only Kidding. That performance was, still is and always will be LEGENDARY

  • I love the end, what a climax! I wonder what the move is called where he tosses her around like that just before they collapse?! Bloody heartstopping!

  • Pure perfection....love Torvill and Dean

  • some people would pay money 2 see them perform again, we get 2 see them every sunday on dancing on ice! 4 free! how lucky are we! how proud 2b british. i'm in awe.

  • Wonderfully fluid! Not bad for a copper.

  • i have never seen this before im only 13 its sooooooo great thanx for posting this!!!Fabulous

  • thanks.

    eccezionale.

    the best ever

  • Fantastic! Thanks so much for posting this. Am a huge fan.

  • I'd forgotten how magical this was! Thanks for posting..

  • Unique, unbeatable and unaffordable.

  • "Unaffordable" LOL should have read unforgettable!!

  • Torvill and Dean's Bolero at the 84 Olympics defined "exquisite" for me. I had recorded it, but lost the recording. Thanks to all who posted this masterpiece to You Tube, so that I may watch again and again.

  • Bolero transformed Jayne Torvill into a Goddess. Thanks for sharing this vid!

  • Gorgeous, genius, awe-inspiring... there aren't enough ways to praise this.

  • WOW well that reduced me to tears all over again, thank you!! Goosebumps or what???

  • now that is what you can call the very very very best in the world. i dont think we wil ever see another jane and chris again.even to this day they are great in danceing on ice on itv. we are very lucky in the uk we see the skate every week on telly.

  • Wouldn't you love to be able to skate like that!!

  • True British talent, not seen today. Bring on a new Torvil and Dean in all sports.

  • their choreography was their original, wasnt it? purely genius. while many skaters use oddly edited music, the seamless bolero was nice too.

  • Apparently they couldn't condense Bolero down to less than four minutes, twenty-eight seconds, but were only allowed four minutes, ten seconds from the moment their blades touched the ice, and that's where the beginning sequence comes from. But yep, they're genii (plural of genius).

  • Graceful, effortless, perfect synchronisation ... brings a tear to my eye every time I see it!

  • I could not agree more!

  • christopher dean is a genius

  • beautiful.

  • Pure art perfection :D

  • is it me or is the ending edited...

  • NO the ending was not edited.

  • The ending had to be edited. All through the routine it was showing olympic rings on the advertsing boards and at the end they changed to canon, SPAR, owena etc. How else do you explain it?

  • legendary...

  • i cant even balance on the ice!

  • This is the first time I've ever seen this (I wasn't around in 1984). I couldn't tear my eyes away from the screen. Amazing.

  • legends.i luv em

  • Omg, they're really good! They're soo grace full

  • Style & Grace... all the way to GOLD. And always.

  • I watched this the day they skated. Watching it now, I still get tingles down the back of my spine. Amazing, historic stuff.

  • god what i wouldnt give to skate like that!! what i wouldnt give to be able to skate! lol thanks for postin this ^_^

  • Nobody has ever come close to Torvill and Dean they are awesome watch the 1984-85pros fantastic

  • Thnx for posting the greatest ice dance ever the haunting Bolero music brought to life by Torvill and Dean just awesome.Still enjoying watching them on Dancing on ice.

  • The final sequence of this video is not the '84 Olympics. It's been cut from the European's in '84. Torvill & Dean changed the ending slighting by both of them reaching out and looking up once they hit the ice.

  • It has been 23 years since I first saw this video and it just watch it, it gets better!! Thank you for posting it.

  • What creativity, what art!

  • Bolero is the best ice dance I've ever seen

  • No-one has managed to come up to the standard of T & D's program since this, not saying this as just a fan of their work..but other skaters have tried to better the choreography and haven't. It's so fluid and perfect, it's like skating is second nature.

  • totally hypnotising!! i love them, I LOVE THEM!! they did us proud

  • omg- they really are perfect !!

    They simply performed flawlessly, so they deserved the points. And perfectly synchronized, I have never seen another couple perform so exact. Simply everything ice dancing should be- elegant and with such presence. Just amazing !!

  • still very moving ive not watched this for 23 years love it love it love it.i remember the whole of britian supporting them and watching them on tv no matter what time of day it was

  • legends! my mum used to train wiv thm!!Nottingham shud be proud!!

  • Pity she didn't teach you how to spell

  • Totally and utterly memorable and amazing!

  • What's so legendary about it... I suppose at that time this was an awesome performance, but today's athletes are sooooo much better... Ice dancing is so much more difficult and challenging and not to forget entertaining today, than it ever was in 1984.

  • This was groundbreaking. Sure, skaters today may be better, but they aren't doing anything we haven't already seen.

  • I completely disagree with everything said in this comment. You are incredibly misinformed.

  • You do not understand it then, they raised the bar to a level that noone at the time could compete with.

    That is some achievement.

  • I was actually replying to the comment that said it doesn't compare to today's dances. Bolero is the best ice dance ever, today's competitors can't better it.

  • love this! i agree that ice dancing is much more difficult and challenging today.and the reason for that is? torvill and dean! especially this performance.they changed ice dancing forever!!

  • I agree with all of you. I said what I said based on today's perspective. I was an infant in 1984, so I don't remember what was there before Torvill and Dean. And also, I give them credit for what they did and do not try to reduce their accomplishment. Personally I love Marina Anisina and her partner (husband) whose name I don't dare to spell... :)

  • If you watch their current routines, they are now in their forties but they are still flawless and they can use more difficulty and do. They can now mix in pairs work with lifts and jumps. In 2006, I saw couples still trying to be the new Torvill and Dean because the sport needs it. It is now back to a minority sport, compared to others on ice.

  • @erginakif

    Didn't Christopher Dean choreograph for Marina Anisina and partner?

  • The set the bar for the standard of Ice Dance, they drew attention to in, were as in the Ice Skating programme at any competion it was the poor sister, the event people didn't watch compared to Pairs or the figure skating.

    They changed the approach to the original progamme and their lines and perfection are still something to emulate.

  • Oh yeah!

  • yeh she did wen they were first starting out. on saturday mornings

  • YAHOO!!! Cool... dude... this is fucking great!

  • BRAVO

  • I wouldnt throw jane torvill out of my bed remember watching this on TV it gets my 110% vote

  • WOW

  • the most mesmerizing performance on ice ever seen

  • legend! i'm not a fan of ice dancing, but this is something else!

  • I remember this as if it were yesterday. This brings tears to my eyes every time I see it. They will never be unsurpassed in my view.

  • *sniif sniff* beautiful!! beautiful!! a truly legendary preformence...

  • Absolutely flawless. 6.0!

  • I absolutely love this performance, everytime I watch it im glued to it n dont want to move, brilliant.

  • Brilliant. I remember 10 years later, during the civil war in Yugoslavia, ABC juxtaposing this performance in 1984 with Sarajevo during the war, the bombed out Olympic Village and freshly dug graves inside the ice arena. That was chilling. I wish I could see that again.

  • Chris and Jayne did Bolero at the 1994 Olympic ice Skating Gala to highlight the situation in Sarajevo and to pay tribute to the war torn city, that was the place that they won ten years before. It felt like they were saying this is what is really important, not us.

  • Should be able to put 10 stars against this! :)

  • Thx a lot, great video. Fantastic pair of skaters, beyond compare.

  • That is truly amazing. They are perfectly symmetrical to each other. This is the best couple I have seen on the ice, ever!

  • Wonderful!! I was 10 when they performed this, and have never ever forgotten. I've wanted to see this for years, thank you so much for posting it!! Tears and shivers!! It seems like only yesturday!!

  • Gave me chills when they announced the 6.0's across the board on the second set of marks! My favorite Ice Dancing performance ever, by the greatest Ice Dancers ever! Thanks!

  • Thank God for YouTube!!! Now I can see this whenever the mood takes me!!! :D

    I've never seen anything like that before!!! :)

    The British pair that we now have are good (they did a routine to Justin Timberlake's 'Cry Me A River' that was really good), but I don't think anyone will ever surpass Torvill & Dean! :)

    Thanks for posting it! :)

  • I was there present. It was one of the best, if not BEST EVER Olympics

  • jaxomsyd thankyou for posting this, have always loved Torvill & Dean they were absolutely amazing & so breathtaking in this performance, i miss watching them. I remember watching it at the time on tv, was totally amazed by them.

  • Awesome!!!! Flawless... thanks for uploading this! Marvelous...

  • Goose bumps, cold shivers, moist eyes...even after all these years and having watched it so may times my reaction is the same now as it was then. They were wonederful.

  • thank you!! brilliant!!!

  • Breathtaking! Electrifying! It still sends shivers down my spine. The most beautiful pairs performance I have ever witnessed. I have been looking for this video for years, thank you so much for posting it.

  • it's technically a "dance" program, not pairs. just so you know! xx

  • Amazing performance, amazing music, amazing couple! They really deserved that gold! thank you for posting it!

  • thanks for postin that, this performance was great!

  • I love this, especially the ending. Thanks for putting this on, x

  • I get goosebumps at the end of this, fantastic thanks for posting it

  • Most beautiful Olympic performance ever. Your version is flawless. Thank you!

  • Absolutly stunning performance. Thank you for posting this.

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