1984 Sarajevo

Sarajevo 1984

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At the 1984 Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo, British ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean turned in a flawless performance that earned them perfect marks for artistic impression and a stunning gold medal. Together, they look back on that unforgettable night in our exclusive video.

Sarajevo 1984 | Olympic Winter games

Highlights

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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean: perfection on ice

Katarina Witt’s zest for sport brought two Olympic golds, now that passion is enriching the lives of youngsters with physical disabilities

Katarina WITT

Originals

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Where are they now? Katarina Witt’s legend lives on

Ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean turn in a flawless display to earn perfect marks and Winter Olympic gold at Sarajevo 1984.

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Torvill And Dean Win Ice Dance Gold in Sarajevo 1984

Hamilton, standing 1\.63m tall as the result of contracting and beating a rare childhood illness, switched from gymnastics to ice skating at the age of 10 and began to train with French Olympic pairs champion Pierre Brunet\.

Hamilton walks tall after figure skating joy

There's an underlying need for speed at the Olympic Winter Games.
Every event on snow and ice requires varying levels of velocity, from a precise shot to knock opposing stones away in curling to generating enough power to execute a triple Axel in figure skating.
But while there are a

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A history of the fastest performances at the Olympic Winter Games

The fact that a sizeable chunk of Great Britain&rsquo;s 2018 primetime Christmas Day terrestrial television schedule was devoted to a dramatisation of a free dance performed by ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1984 is a useful indication of the influence this Olympic moment has had on popular

Snapped: Torvill & Dean relive the day they danced their way to enduring glory 

Competing at the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984, Great Britain&rsquo;s Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean produced a sparkling display in their free programme, watched by 8,500 fortunate spectators at the Zetra Olympic Ice Hall and a TV audience that included 24 million spellbound viewers back home in the

Bonnie Blair has earned a special place in the pantheon of American Olympic sport\. For many years, she was the most decorated winter athlete in her country with six medals, including five gold won in three Games, and remains to this day the only one to win the same event

Bonnie Blair recalls sweet Olympic debut

They arrived on to the World Cup scene in 1975 when Phil made his debut aged 18\. A year later competed for his country at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria\. Later that year he won his first World Cup race in the giant slalom at Val d&rsquo;Isere, France\.

Mahre twins master the elements to claim giant slalom one-two

The 22\-year\-old Swede saw off the likes of established greats such as Juha Mieto of Finland and the Soviet Union&rsquo;s Nikolay Zimyatov to return from Yugoslavia with two gold medals, one silver and a bronze\.

Cross-country gold tops youngster Svan's medal haul

The Soviet squad proved invincible in the competition for a sixth time thanks to their feared attacking trio of Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov &ndash; nicknamed the KLM after their surname initials &ndash; and the peerless goalkeeping skills of Vladislav Tretyak, who claimed his third and final Olympic

Tretyak and USSR bury ghosts of 1980 in ice hockey triumph

Tall and athletic, Kirvesniemi was born into a family of cross\-country skiers and raised on a farm in Simpele, near Finland&rsquo;s border with the USSR\. She took up skiing aged five and began competing in races a year later\.

Kirvesniemi proves doubters wrong with cross-country treble

It was an early highlight in a career as remarkable for its length as its excellence, which saw Weissflog competing both as an East German and for the unified Germany\.

Nimble Weissflog jumps to a career high

She won her first national title at the age of 15, in 1980, and then took the European silver medal two years later, before finally winning the first of six successive golds in 1983\.

Razor-sharp Witt sees hard work pay off on the rink

Her victory was all the more impressive as she achieved it despite the event on Mount Jahorina being repeatedly hampered by wildly inconsistent weather\. Fog, heavy snow and high winds led to delays and safety concerns\.

Flawless Figini wins women's downhill to break age record

Racing in dense fog, she stunned spectators on Mount Jahorina – those who could see her time flash on the electronic scoreboard – just as Debbie Armstrong had in the giant slalom three days previously and downhill champion Bill Johnson had 24 hours earlier\. She buried her hands in her

Magoni emerges from the fog to make Alpine skiing history

Johnson&rsquo;s journey to the peak of his sport began in his troubled teenage years when he picked up a pair of skis and began racing competitively\. Racing down the slopes of Mount Hood in his native Oregon, the youngster realised he had found a positive way to harness his energy\.

Unlikely hero Johnson follows through on skiing gold promise

Their journey to Olympic gold at the Yugoslavia Games began six years earlier\. Dean, a police constable from Nottingham in England&rsquo;s East Midlands, split from his ice dance partner Sandra Elson, who had partnered him to victory in the British Junior Ice Dance championships\.

Torvill and Dean steal hearts on Valentine's Day

The giant slalom specialist, from Nova Gorica in the Julian Alps, collected a silver medal with a time of 2:41\.41, sending hundreds of spectators lining the course at Mount Bjelasnica into raptures\.

Jure FRANKO

Giant slalom star Franko thrills Yugoslavia

Kvalfoss, from the mountain village of Voss in western Norway, grew up on skis and was a regular cross\-country competitor\. But at the age of 12 he arrived for a competition one day to discover he hadn’t been entered\.

Kvalfoss takes his chance to land biathlon gold

The cheerful skier, from Seattle, Washington, caused a major shock when she outduelled her fellow American Christin Cooper over the two runs to earn the US its first alpine ski medal for 12 years in a shock 1\-2 triumph\.

Armstrong has the time of her life in giant slalom

East Germany was the dominant force in the Luge and Bobsleigh throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, thanks to a combination of up\-to\-the\-minute performance analysis, use of sports science to modify techniques, tough training sessions and extensive practice sessions on Olympic runs ahead of the Games\.

Hoppe steers savvy East German bobsleighers to victory

Born in Charlesbourg, Quebec in 1958, Boucher began his athletic career as an ice hockey player and took lessons in speed skating to improve his game\. But he soon found he was spending more time on perfecting his skating than working at this hockey game and switched to the ice

Gaetan BOUCHER

Speed skater Boucher breaks Canada's golden duck