Jayne Torvill shot to fame in the 80s as one half of supreme skating duo Torvill & Dean. Some of our readers will no doubt be too young to remember their breath-taking performance at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, but their iconic dance to Ravel’s Bolero is forever embedded in the nation’s psyche. For a country that invents sports but then isn’t very good at them, suddenly we had the opportunity to be rightly proud of two ground-breaking sports people who achieved the highest ever score for a single skating piece. Torvill & Dean absolutely tore the roof off. Has that performance defined her life, I wondered. “Well, I guess so. It’s like a special friend that’s been with us for 31 years now, and when we won, it was both exciting and a bit frightening at the same time. “We tried to shake up the format, by starting slowly and building to a crescendo, which wasn’t how ice skating was done then, but then once you’ve done that, once you’ve had that sort of success, it’s hard to know where to go with it.” Years of competing in skating competitions and other Olympics has meant that both Jayne and Chris [...]